1914–1965
Biography · Civil Rights
Alphonso Sumner
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United States
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Alphonso M. Sumner was an African American man who opened Nashville, Tennessee's first Black school. Sumner was also a barber, a newspaper publisher, and a Northern abolitionist.
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