ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, MS. MARIE C BOLDEN, A 14-YEAR-OLD BLACK GIRL, WON THE FIRST NATIONAL SPELLING BEE! – A RAINBOW OF ROLE MODELS {WEDNESDAY SERIES}

If you haven’t heard about the Black girl who won the first national spelling bee in the U.S. 115 years ago, you’re not alone: even many in her family didn’t know about Marie C. Bolden’s feat until after she died decades later.

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