Fargo Agricultural School girls' basketball team, 1943 [graphic]. 1943.

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Fargo Agricultural School girls' basketball team, 1943 [graphic]. 1943.

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Negative taken of the girls' basketball team from Fargo Agricultural School including M.Z. Chandler, coach in 1943. The Fargo Agricultural School was founded by Floyd B. Brown and his wife Lillian Nora Epps Brown in Fargo, Monroe County, Arkansas in 1919 and the school operated until 1949. The school was an African American owned and operated boarding school for African American boys and girls with a flexible curriculum. As a private school, the Fargo Agricultural School was supported by contributions and the sales of its products. Floyd Brown was born April 27, 1891 at Stampley, Jefferson County, Mississippi and died September 11, 1961 in the Baptist Hospital in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas while a resident of Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas. He attended Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama and Tennessee State College.

1 copy negative : b&w ; 13 x 10 cm. (5 x 4 in.)

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Chandler, M. Z.

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Arkansas History Commission

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The Arkansas History Commission was created by the General Assembly in 1905. Inspired and guided during its early years by John Hugh Reynolds, the commission is the official archives of the state, responsible for collecting and preserving the source materials of the history of Arkansas. From the description of Arkansas History Commission records, 1905-1984 [microform]. (Arkansas History Commission). WorldCat record id: 244818119 ...

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