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Willa Beatrice Player

Willa Beatrice Player
Willa Beatrice Player, American educator, first Black woman college president (d. 2003)

Willa Beatrice Player was an American educator, college administrator, college president, civil rights activist, and federal appointee. Player was the first African-American woman to become president of a four-year, fully accredited liberal arts college when she took the position at Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina.

9 August 1909

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