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Wallace A. Battle
1872–1946
United States
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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 (Redden) Battle, freed slaves. Battle graduated from Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, in 1901.
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