Obelia "Bee" Graves Papers 1936-1945 1937-1939.

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Obelia "Bee" Graves Papers 1936-1945 1937-1939.

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This collection contains letters to Obelia "Bee" Graves, from her family and friends, while she attended Winston-Salem Teachers College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The institution is presently known as Winston-Salem State University. Winston-Salem Teachers College was the first historically black college to grant bachelors degrees in elementary school education. The collection also includes college documents from her time at college such as report cards and her admission acceptance. The collection also contains letters from two soldiers to Bee Graves' sister, Cleonis. The soldiers served during World War II in the Philippines.

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Winston-Salem Teachers College

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Graves, Obelia "Bee."

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Obelia "Bee" Graves attended Winston-Salem Teachers College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the first historically black college to grant bachelor degrees in elementary school education. Her family lived in Blance, North Carolina. Her parents were Vester and Sallie Graves. From the description of Obelia "Bee" Graves Papers 1936-1945 1937-1939. (College of William & Mary). WorldCat record id: 624072049 ...

Winston-Salem State University

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Winston-Salem State University was founded as the Slater Industrial Academy on 28 Sept. 1892; began in a one-room frame structure with 25 pupils and one teacher; first postsecondary level instruction was offered in 1925; awarded the first baccalaureate degree in 1927; 1972 it became a constituent institution of The University of North Carolina System; name changes include Slater Industrial Academy, 1892; Slater Industrial and State Normal School, 1897; Winston-Salem Teachers College, 1925; Winst...