"I also learned how they hungered for education. We take it for granted nowadays, that we get free education. That was major, that they didn't have it, and when they had it they passed it on with whatever they knew. After reconstruction, even if they only had a second grade education, they passed it on. The fact that everyone was hungry to learn to read and write was an amazing thing to realize…"
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Playwrights from the United StatesAfrican AmericansWomen born in the 1950sActresses from New York (state)
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On the research that she did regarding slaves in her work Pretty Fire in “An Interview with Charlayne Woodard” in Talkin’ Broadway
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