Elizabeth Gertrude (Eliza) Suggs was born December 11, 1876, in Bureau County, Illinois near the town of Providence, and was an American author. She was the youngest of eight children born to former slaves James and Melinda Suggs. Eliza suffered from and extreme case of osteogenesis imperfecta. Four weeks after her birth her bones became […]
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