Hall, Anna E. (1870-1964)
Dates
- Existence: 1870 - 1964
Biographical Note
Anna E. Hall was born near Bainbridge, Georgia in 1870. She attended Clark University (now Clark Atlanta University), graduating in 1892. Hall taught and served as a school principal in Florida and Georgia before attending the New England Deaconess Training School in Boston, Massachusetts in 1899 as their first Black student. She graduated on May 22, 1901. Hall worked as a Methodist deaconess in Atlanta for five years, and then moved to Liberia, where she taught and directed schools. She spent 25 years in Liberia before returning to Atlanta. Hall died in 1964.
Source:
Biographic note, Anna E. Hall collection. Archives Research Center. Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library.
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Anna E. Hall letters and ephemera
Letters and ephemera from Anna E. Hall, who was among the first Black graduates of the New England Deaconess Home Training School in Boston in 1901 and later a missionary in Liberia.
Collection is open for research.