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Helen Louise Dillet Johnson: First Black Woman to Teach in a Florida Grammar School

Helen Louise Dillet Johnson was a musician and the first black female teacher in a Florida grammar school and at Edwin M. Stanton School. Dillet was born in 1842 to Stephen Dillet, (French Haitian) and Mary Symonett. Johnson's mother took her to New York to pursue a singing career. While in New York, she met […]

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