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Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington

by Ruth Ann Stewart

Nonfiction · 780L · 154 pages · 1977

Why we'd hand it over

A rare and earnest 1977 biography of an overlooked figure; valuable as a primary example of how African American women shaped early 20th-century education and activism, though the prose doesn't sing and may feel dated to modern readers.

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