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	At this point Miss Wilson‘s pride was unconcealed. She c~ontinued her conversation, but her voice was much louder and her speech waa znuch faster. She remarked ‚ “My deaire was t o t each, I opened a school in ~iy home ‚ and I had lots of students. After t~o years my class grew so fast and large that my father built a school for me in our back yard. I had as mamy as seventy-‘ five pupils at one time. Many of them became teachers. I had my graduation exercises in the Emanuel A. M. E. Church. Those were myhappi?st days.“
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