Photos: UGA's first black graduate, Mary Frances Early
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Miss Mary Frances Early, a African American music teacher in Atlanta June 8, 1961, will enroll at the University of Georgia in Athens Monday, for a summer quarter of graduate work. A teacher in Atlanta’s John Hope Elementary School, she will be the third member of her race to enter the nation’s oldest land grant college. At left on the piano is a plaque awarded to Miss Early as Teacher of the Year for 1959-60. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)
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