Williams Sisters Set Example for Women

Williams Sisters Set Example for Women

Education

This article was written by Perre Magness and published in the Memphis Commercial Appeal newspaper on Thursday, May 19, 1994. The article is written on the Williams sisters, Charl Ormond Williams and Mabel Williams Hughes. The article tells of how Charl Ormond Williams was a leader in the suffrage movement and in national education and how Mable Williams Hughes was the first female president of the Tennessee Public School Officers Association and also the first female president of the West Tennessee State Teachers Association. The article covers how these women made their impact on the educational front.

Magness, Perre

Mississippi Valley Collection

The University of Memphis Libraries

May 19, 1994

Commercial Appeal

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