Wallace A. Battle
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Wallace A. Battle
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Wallace Aaron Battle (1872–1946) was an educational leader for African Americans in the Southern United States. He grew up on a cotton farm in Alabama with the other 12 children of Augustus and Jeanetta (Redden) Battle, freed slaves. Battle graduated from Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, in 1901. He helped found Okolona College in 1902, also known as Okolona Industrial School or Okolona Normal and Industrial School. The diary he kept provides a source for his life's work.
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African-American educator
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_A._Battle
date created:
2014-01-31T20:51:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T15:18:44Z
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