[Manuscript Documents]: Appointment of Mattie E. Dixon, a Colored School Teacher in Minter City, Mississippi, 1900 [with] Application for Payment Signed by Dixon

Minter City, Mississippi: 1900.

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Unbound. Manuscript document. Measuring 5½" x 9". Old folds, a bit toned, very good. Notice to the Hon. Board of Supervisors of Leflore County, Mississippi that the trustees of Minter City Colored School (Henry Irving and George Colling) appointed Mattie E. Dixon as teacher at the school making $25 per month. Further endorsed by F.P. Pleasents and Thomas E. Averst that Irving and Colling are indeed the trustees of the school. [With]: Autograph Letter Signed ("Mattie E. Dixon") to the Board of Supervisors, asking to be paid for her services at the end of the two month period.

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Item #463935 [Manuscript Documents]: Appointment of Mattie E. Dixon, a Colored School Teacher in Minter City, Mississippi, 1900 [with] Application for Payment Signed by Dixon. Mattie E. DIXON.

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
birth name: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
born: 2/23/1868
died: 8/27/1963

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American sociologist, the most important black protest leader in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. He helped create the National ASsociation for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909 and edited The Crisis, its magazine, from 1910 to 1934. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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