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Sarah J. Smith Tompkins Garnet (1831-1911)
Sarah Smith Tompkins Garnet was the first African American female principal in the New York public schools. The eldest of...
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November 19th, 2008
Robert Bogle (1774-1848)
Entrepreneur Robert Bogle was the first of many African American caterers who served nineteenth-century Philadelphia’s white elite. Born in 1774,...
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May 23rd, 2009