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Joan Countryman: oral history with Emma Lapsansky-Werner

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Countryman, Joan

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Interview with Joan Countryman, the first African American graduate of Germantown Friends School, longtime teacher of mathematics and head of academic planning there, lecturer at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, and co-founder of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership School for Girls in South Africa. Countryman discusses living in Philadelphia, her own religious growth
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  1. African American Quakers
  2. African Americans
  3. History
  4. Quakers
  5. Religious Education
  6. Society Of Friends

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