Thelma Dewitty was the first black teacher to be hired by the Seattle Public School System. Dewitty was born in Beaumont, Texas. She began her career as a schoolteacher in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1933. She received her bachelor's degree in from Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, in 1941 and transferred to teach in her […]
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