Cleo Water Blackburn was the Director of Flanner House from 1936 until his retirement in 1975. During his time there, he was also the President of Jarvis Christian College for eleven years. Blackburn was the grandson of a former slave. He was born September 27, 1909, in Port Gibson, Mississippi. In $7.19 in his pocket. […]
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