BY WALTER OPINDE Born on 26th September, 1899 in Anniston, Alabama, William Levi Dawson was the first among the seven children of Eliza Starkey and George W. Dawson, which was a Black American family. By the age of thirteen, William flees from his parental home to join the Tuskegee Institute. An action that made him […]
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