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MAUDE E. CRAIG SAMPSON WILLIAMS (1880-1958)
BlackPast
(2020)
Abstract
Maude Craig, public school teacher, suffragist, civil rights and community activist, was born in Austin, Texas in February 1880 to Marie Sanders Craig, a homemaker, and George Washington Craig, a grocer. In 1900, Craig graduated from Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College (now Prairie View A&M University) and taught at African American schools her entire career: in Texas, at the Emile School in Bastrop and Douglass School in El Paso; also, at Central Elementary in La Union, New Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s.
Keywords
- Black women,
- community activist,
- El Paso,
- Texas,
- NAACP
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Publication Date
Spring March 28, 2020
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will guzmán. "MAUDE E. CRAIG SAMPSON WILLIAMS (1880-1958)" BlackPast (2020) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/will-guzmn/7/
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