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101-year-old Merrill Pittman Cooper
finally receives his high school diploma
While Merrill Cooper had completed his coursework, his mother could not afford to buy the document. In surprise ceremony in Jersey City, Cooper was finally given the diploma he worked so hard to earn.
“When the time comes that the colored people of the South live in their own houses, cultivate their own farms, and read their own ballots, there will no longer be a race problem.”
Freewill Baptist mission school Newspaper 1892
