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Leila Amos Pendleton

(Pendleton, Leila Amos, 1860-)

Leila Amos Pendleton (1868 – 1938) (frontispiece to A Narrative of the Negro, Washington, D.C.: Press of R.L. Pendleton, 1912)
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Leila Amos Pendleton (1868 – 1938) was an author, community activist, and a teacher in Washington D.C.'s public schools. She was the founder and president of the Alpha Charity Club of Anacostia and the Social Purity Club of Washington, D.C. She was active in several other women's race organizations, both as a secretary and vice president. She wrote books and articles. She was African-American. Her husband, Robert Lewis Pendleton (1865-1929) was a publisher and printer. He published some of his wife's books, historical statements of African Americans, and community publications including the Constitution of the American Negro Academy for the American Negro Academy of Washington, D.C. in 1905. (From Wikipedia)

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