Educator Elizabeth Wright was born in Talbotton, Georgia, on April 3, 1872. She was the seventh child of twenty-one children born to black carpenter John Wesley Wright and his full-blooded Cherokee wife, Virginia Rolfe. Wright grew up in a three-room cabin built by her father and attended an all-grades school held in a church basement. […]
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