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| Title | Manima Wilson, ca. 1907 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1910 |
| Caption | Manima Wilson, the daughter of Arminta Spears Wilson and Samuel Wilson, was born in 1886 in Snohomish County. She graduated from Everett High School in 1907, continuing on to attain a B.A. in education at the University of Washington, where she is believed to have been the first African American woman to graduate. She married Claude Davis about 1915 in Ontario. Their three children, Paul, Cathern, and Harriett, were born between 1916 and 1920 in Spokane. Manima died in 1949. Cathern married Ishmael Flory in Chicago. |
| Notes | Handwritten on verso: My mother, Manima - Cathern.
Caption information source: BHS records. |
| Subjects | Women--Washington (State)
African Americans--Washington (State)
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| Personal Names | Davis, Manima Wilson |
| Location | United States--Washington (State) |
| Digital Collection | Black Heritage Society Collection |
| Image Number | 2001.11.2.12 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or inquire about permissions, contact: TheBoard@blackheritagewa.org. Please cite the Image Number. |
| Repository | The Black Heritage Society of Washington State, Inc. |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print: b&w; 5 1/2 x 4 in.; torn, stained |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color, resized to 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
