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Virginia Jackson Kiah

1911–2001

United States

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Virginia Jackson Kiah (June 3, 1911 – December 28, 2001) was an African-American educator and artist who spent a large part of her life in Savannah, Georgia, where Kiah Hall is now named for her. She was the daughter of civil-rights activist Lillie May Carroll Jackson.

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