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WILLIAM L. BULKLEY, 1861-1933 IBD

NEW ELMWOOD PRESS
04 / 2022
9798985842401
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William L.áBulkley was one of the important educators and reformers of the early 20th Century and it is time to incorporate him into the American story.He was born to free, mixed-race parents in South Carolina just as the Civil War began.áHe graduated from Claflin University in South Carolina andáSyracuse University, where he earned a PhD in Latin.áAfter teaching for fourteenáyears at Claflin University, Bulkley moved to New York City where he became an innovative educator, established an evening school, and was the first African American principal of a predominantly white school.áHe worked alongside W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Booker T. Washington, and other activists and was a founder of the NAACP and the National Urban League. Upon retirement, Bulkley moved to France, where he died in 1933.áHis story is told through his writings, public records, newspaper articles,áand archival documents.

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