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Lillie Patterson, author, educator, and librarian, Baltimore

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Photograph of Lillie Griselda Patterson (1917-1999), author of children's and young adult books, specialist in library services in the Baltimore Public Schools, and librarian at Morgan State College in Baltimore, Maryland. Among the titles of children's books she has written are Booker T. Washington: Leader of His People; Francis Scott Key: Poet and Patriot; and Frederick Douglass: Freedom Fighter. She would later become the first recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award for her book entitled Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace.
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Digital Reproduction Of 1 Black And White Photograph, 28 X 22 Cm.
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