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Ethel Darden

CTL-E-2343 · Person · educator · 1900–2011

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Black educator (1900–2011) born in Dallas, Texas; taught in Dallas schools for nearly two decades, moved to Chicago in 1942, and taught at Howalton Day School after her twin sister Doris Allen — a founder — enlisted her. Howalton grew out of Oneida Cockrell's pioneering preschool and kindergarten.

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Apartment houses and funeral parlor in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941
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Children asleep in a kitchenette apartment, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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