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Jackson Advocate
Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi
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Birmingham, Ala., board of education votes to erect bronze plaque honoring Carrie Tuggle, former slave turned educator who founded a school and orphanage in 1908 and died in 1924. Plaque to be placed on cornerstone of school named after her.
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BIRMINGHAM. Ala. Feb. 8-(Special) -Birmingham board of education has voted to erect a bronze plaque in memory of a woman who spent her childhood as a slave but later became an outstanding Negro educator.
The board voted to place a gold-inscribed plaque on the cornerstone of the modern public school which bears the name of Carrie Tuggle, active in education and orphan welfare work in Birmingham for many years before her death in 1924.
The school stands on the site of the orphanage and school which Carrie Tuggle founded in 1908.
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Birmingham. Ala.
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Feb. 8
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the board voted to erect a bronze plaque in memory of carrie tuggle.
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Birmingham board of education has voted to erect a bronze plaque in memory of Carrie Tuggle, who spent her childhood as a slave but later became an outstanding Negro educator. The plaque will be placed on the cornerstone of the modern public school named after her, which stands on the site of the orphanage and school she founded in 1908. She was active in education and orphan welfare work in Birmingham for many years before her death in 1924.