Born in Georgia just a few years after emancipation, Mary Jackson McCrorey was a committed educator and activist for Black Americans in the South. This portrait accompanies her biographical entry in the North Carolina edition of History of the American Negro (1921).
From the New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division.
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Born in Georgia just a few years after emancipation, Mary Jackson McCrorey was a committed educator and activist for Black Americans in the South. This…
