Alphonso Sumner
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Alphonso Sumner
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Alphonso Sumner was an African American man who opened Nashville, Tennessee's first Black school. Sumner was also a barber, a newspaper publisher, and a Northern abolitionist. He opened his school March 4, 1833 with about 20 students. The school grew to have a student body of around 200 by 1836. The majority of the pupils were free Black children, but a few may have been enslaved. The rapid growth of the school led him to hire Daniel Wadkins be a teacher. In 1836 Sumner was nearly whipped to dea
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