DVD- Amanda America Dickson Toomer Marker Dedication

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This DVD is historical timecapsule documenting the Marker Dedication honoring Amanda America Dickson Toomer. The event was held on May 21, 2021. Own your copy of this historical event.

Born into slavery, she was the child of David Dickson, a white planter, and Julia Frances Lewis (Dickson), a young enslaved woman of his who was thirteen when her daughter was born. Amanda was raised by Elizabeth Sholars Dickson, her white grandmother and legal mistress. She was educated and schooled in the social skills of her father's class, and he helped her to enjoy a life of privilege away from the harsh realities of slavery before emancipation following the Civil War. In her late 20s, Dickson attended the normal school of Atlanta University, a historically black college, from 1876 to 1878.

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