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Frances Hargraves (1914–2002) attended Orange County Training School and came back to teach there after college. She was the first Black teacher of an integrated classroom in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools, founded the system's special education program and taught for 35 years.
Source: Orange County Courthouse Mural: Frances Hargraves
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Four photographs of Frances Hargraves: formal and candid portraits, and a picture from a reception in her honor at the Horace Williams House on 14 April 2002, with its original print. From the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).
Durham funeral programs dated 1966 to 2002 for people named Hargraves, Hargroves, Harper and Harrell, from the North Carolina Memory collection. Frances Neal Hargraves, Maceo Radford Hargroves and Milton Harper Jr. are among those remembered.
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