Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library
Proud moment
Associated Press · May 16, 1967
Theodosia Johnson, 78, stepdaughter of a slave, receives her high school diploma 62 years after she quitting a one-room Georgia schoolhouse. Miss Johnson says she went back to finish learning fractions but never intended graduate. John Anthony, principal. of Rochelle High School in Lakeland, hands her the adult school consensus.
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