"Last Class" photograph   Save
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center
Description: This photograph shows the last class of a "colored" school, possibly in Bellefontaine, Ohio. Earl M. Harper, father of Felma Harper Washington, is present though unidentified. This photograph is part of the Felma Harper Washington Collection. Felma Harper Washington was a leader, minister, musician, writer and historian in Bellfontaine, Ohio. Born in Bellefontaine in 1903, she traveled the country working with the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E. Church) and married Reverend Edward Washington. She founded the Harper Memorial Library and the Museum of African-American Historical Research. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2034_aaeo_90-18_017
Subjects: African Americans; Students; African American children;
Places: Bellefontaine (Ohio);