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Betty Ellison-Harpole: Teaching beyond the recipe, living outside the box | Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
By Alleen Brown Contributing Writer Betty Ellison-Harpole moved to the Midwest in the 1950s from segregated Memphis, Tennessee. For 37 years she taught kindergarten through third grade, as one of few African American teachers in Minneapolis schools. She piloted the city’s first all-day kindergarten class at Bethune school in the early 1980s. Although she’s […]
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