African American school children. PHOTO/NewsOne
After reading President Obama's Executive Order creating the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, I thought about my father, Harold P. Chavous.
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Born on a farm in Aiken, South Carolina, at nine years old he began his educational journey by walking seven miles each way to a one room schoolhouse. At fifteen, he was the
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