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OZETTE PITTMAN BELL COLLECTION, 1856, 1922-1940 (P.C. 1622)

Family papers of Bell, including a Nash County certificate that Mrs. Elizabeth Boon of Halifax County was a free Negro (1856); monthly attendance reports (1922-1923) by Mrs. Almyra Boone Pittman, principal of a Negro School in Enfield; her membership card in the North Carolina Negro Teachers Association (1940); and a letter of recommendation from the superintendent of the Halifax County Schools (1937) for builder Carey Pittman.