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Fannie E. Motley

1927–2016

United States

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Fannie Ernestine Smith Motley (January 25, 1927 – May 8, 2016) was the first African-American graduate from Spring Hill College, a Jesuit institution in Mobile, Alabama. She entered the school in 1954.

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