Charlotte Andrews Stephens, Arkansas Librarian and Teacher

Charlotte Andrews Stephens, the first African American teacher in Little Rock, Arkansas, was a high school librarian and a junior college librarian. She was also the first woman in Arkansas to have a school named after her.

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