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(From left) are teachers Lauren Wagner and Kris Beurmann under a portrait of Louise Archer.

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Looking Back at Louise Archer

Louise A. Reeves Archer was born on Oct. 23, 1883, and grew up in North Carolina. She attended Livingstone College, taught school in Southampton County and moved to Washington, D.C., in 1922. That year, she became the teacher and principal for the one-room, segregated Vienna Colored School. She devoted her life to educating African-American children and often drove them to school, herself.

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