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Dr. Atwell Theodore Braxton, the son of slave parents, moved to Columbia in 1896, at age 25. He was educated at the Tuskegee Normal Industrial Institute in Alabama. He received medical training from Leward Medical College, Raleigh, NC; Medical Hospital and City Hospital, Brooklyn NY; the Physicians and Surgeons College, Boston MA; and Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN.

Dr. Lucius H. Gilmore was born in Columbia, Maury County, TN in 1889. He entered public school in 1896 and graduated from the eleventh grade in 1909, the highest grade offered at the College Hill School. After high school, he worked as a reporter for the Nashville Globe Newspaper in Nashville, TN.

In honor of African American History Month, let's talk about Political Activist Elias Polk!