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Laurine Cecil Anderson: Influential Educator and School Administrator

Laurine Cecil (L. C.) Anderson was an African American educator and school administrator. Anderson was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1853 and received his B.A. from Fisk University. He trained for the Methodist ministry and taught at Tuskegee, Alabama, with Booker T. Washington before moving to Texas in 1879 to assist his brother E. H. […]

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