Mrs. M. E. C. Smith [recto], 1902. Mary E. C. Smith, African-American Sunday-school teacher, principal of the Normal Department of the Edward Waters College. At an early age '...she was impressed with the idea that it was her duty to go to the South to instruct her people, who were just emerging from bondage'. From a 'cyclopedia of thought on the vital topics relating to' black Americans.

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