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Wallace A. Battle

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Wallace Aaron Battle (1872 – 1946) was an educational leader for African Americans in the Southern United States. He grew up on a cotton farm in Alabama with the other 12 children of Augustus and Jeanetta Battle, freed slaves.[1] Battle graduated from Berea College in 1901. He helped found Okolona College in 1902. The diary he kept provides a source for his life's work.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Wallace Battle Family Accepts the John G. Fee Award", Berea College Magazine, Winter 2007.
  2. ^ "African American educator and 1901 graduate Wallace A. Battle to be honored at Berea College Founders' Day Oct. 12". Berea College. Retrieved February 15, 2014.