Evelena Williams Graduates

Evelena Williams was the first identifiable African-American graduate of the State Normal School. Williams taught and was principal for nine years in a one room school house for African Americans in Jamaica, N.Y. She lost her job when the Jamaica schools were integrated in 1893 or 1894. Nothing in UAlbany's surviving records indicates that Williams was African-American. That information comes from Carleton Maybee, Black Education in New York.

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Carleton Maybee, Black Education in New York