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Andrew Hargrett

1879–1932

United States

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Andrew Joshua Hargrett, Sr. (1879–1932) was a pioneering African-American educator who organized Shadeville Elementary School in 1909, the first school for black people in Wakulla County, Florida. In the late 1920s, he also led the crusade to establish Shadeville High School, the county's first high school for black students.

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