Paine College Faculty, 1936

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The faculty of Paine College, a historically Black college in Augusta, is pictured in 1936. The faculty was all white upon the college's opening in 1884 and was integrated four years later, when its first Black faculty member, John Wesley Gilbert, was hired.

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Paine College Faculty, 1936

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