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Otelia Shields Howard

1900–1945

United States

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Otelia Roberta Shields Howard (September 15, 1900 – December 13, 1945) was an American professor of English. She taught more than twenty years at Virginia State College, and founded the school's newspaper, the Virginia Statesman.

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