No males left behind at Yallahs High School

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No males left behind at Yallahs High School

The Yallahs High School in St Thomas is benefiting from the ‘No Male Left Behind’ project being spearheaded by the Desnoes...

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Lucy Craft Laney was born in Macon, Georgia, in 1854, into a family of ten children. Taught to read and write by her mother, a domestic worker, she graduated from Macons Lewis High School and entered Atlanta University at the age of fifteen and graduated in 1873. Laney taught in the Georgia public

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(1837) Theodore S. Wright, “Prejudice Against the Colored Man”

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(1841) Charles Lenox Remond, “Slavery As It Concerns The British”

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