Dinah Watts Pace (1853-1933) was an American educator who founded black schools in Covington, Georgia and later founded the Covington Colored Children's Orphanage, which she ran for over forty years. Raised as a slave, she received her diploma in education from Atlanta University and gained a nationwide reputation for her charitable work with orphans.
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9 January 1853 Athens, Clarke County, Georgia
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Died |
25 January 1933 (aged 80) Atlanta, Georgia
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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