Elijah B. Odom
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title:
Elijah B. Odom
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Elijah B. Odom was an American physician and businessperson from Hernando, Mississippi. He was born into slavery in 1859. Despite the enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, his descendants believe he was still kept a slave as a child, forced to pick berries by his owner. Elijah and his brothers eventually escaped to freedom, swimming across a narrow part of the Mississippi River. He attended LeMoyne Normal Institute in Memphis, Tennessee and graduated valedictorian in 1882. He later
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US-American physician
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_B._Odom
date created:
2016-09-30T23:19:06Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T12:19:38Z
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