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Joan Imogen Howard
1848–1937
United States
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Joan Imogen Howard (7 November 1848, Boston – 8 November 1937, Philadelphia) was an American educator and principal from the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Characterized as a "black liberal integrationist", she was the first African American graduate of Girls High and Normal School in Boston, as well as the only African American to serve on a state board for the Columbian Exposition.
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