GEORGIA Two diplomas for Cleopatra Love of Bibb County

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GEORGIA. Two diplomas for Cleopatra Love of Bibb County. Her high school diploma, dated 1905, and her teacher's certificate from Atlanta University, dated 1933. Both are furled, with some light wear and a couple of very small closed tears at the edges. Georgia, 1905-1933

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Cleopatra Love attended Ballard, and is listed by them as having "joined the Exodus" and emigrated North. There she attended New York University. She is cited in Titus Brown's Faithful, Firm and True: African American Education in the South (Mercer University Press, 2002). Many of the South's best emigrated North after WWI, and the so-called "Red Summer."