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Photographer: from
The History of My Life and Work by Rev. M.L. Latta, via Google Books (PD)
Taken: Circa 1903
Caption:
Rev. Morgan London Latta (1853-?) | Additional Description: He was born into slavery on a Durham County plantation. He attended Shaw University after the Civil War and moved to Raleigh in 1890, where he worked as a schoolteacher before starting his namesake school. After it closed in the 1920s, Latta moved to Philadelphia where he died. Sources conflict on when he died, placing it between 1924 and 1945.
Submitted: September 23, 2023, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Database Locator Identification Number: p751538
File Size: 0.070 Megabytes
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