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Ruth McConnell to Charles W. Chesnutt, 19 April 1932

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  149 Beech St. Greensboro, N.C. Mr. Charles W. Chestnutt 9719 Lamont Ave., N.E. Cleveland Ohio My Dear Mr. Chestnutt

I am a little girl eleven years old and in the six "A" grade at Washington Street School.1 In our work we are making a booklet of great negroes. Will you kindly send me one of your pictures. Thanking you for your kindness.

Your's sincerely Ruth McConnell   Pay on 5th of month



Correspondent: Ruth Rebecca Elizabeth McConnell Cousins (1920–1986) was a Black woman who lived and died in Greensboro, North Carolina. She graduated from Dudley High School in 1937, taught adult-education night classes, and became a schoolteacher (retiring in 1976).



1. Washington Street School is located at 1110 E. Washington St. in southeast Greensboro, a predominantly Black area of the city. It was originally a Black elementary school, but added a high school curriculum in 1926. However, Ruth McConnell (1920–1986) graduated from nearby Dudley High School, which opened in 1929 as Greensboro's first Black high school. [back]