Grand Rapids Study Club

Rediscovering Merze Tate: A remarkable African-American woman who grew up in our own backyard

by (Greater Grand R...)

Submitted 03-10-2014 under NONPROFITS

Discover how a tenacious African- American girl growing up in rural mid- Michigan in the early 1900s defied tremendous odds during the Jim Crow era by earning degrees at some of the world’s  most prestigious universities and then went on...

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