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"Princeton's Negro Instructor Dead"
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"Princeton's Negro Instructor Dead"

5 January 1903 Reconstruction to Present (1865-)

Alexander Dumas Watkins's 1903 obituary in the Jersey Journal.

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"The Celebrated Alexander Dumas Watkins": Princeton's First Black Instructor
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“Princeton’s Negro Instructor Dead,” Jersey Journal [The Evening Journal], 5 January 1903, p. 1

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America's Historical Newspapers.

Format JPEG Item Type Still Image Newspaper Jersey Journal [The Evening Journal] Place of Publication Jersey City, NJ
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