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Sarah Ann Dickey

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April 25, 1838, near Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
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Jan. 23, 1904, Clinton, Miss. (aged 65)
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Sarah Ann Dickey (born April 25, 1838, near Dayton, Ohio, U.S.—died Jan. 23, 1904, Clinton, Miss.) was an American educator who devoted her efforts in the post-Civil War United States to creating and enhancing educational opportunities for African-American students. Dickey had almost no schooling until she was 16, but her determined progress thereafter was rapid, and at the age of 19 she secured a teacher’s certificate. After six years of teaching in her native region she went to Vicksburg, Mississippi, to teach in a freedmen’s school operated by her church, the United Brethren in Christ (1863–65). She graduated from Mount ...(100 of 322 words)

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