Septima Poinsette in 1916 with other members of cast of Avery’s production of “Hiawatha,” based on a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about a legendary Mohawk hero. In interviews later in life, Septima Clark and her cousin Bernice Robinson recalled that their mothers’ side of the family had Native American ancestry. | Source: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. Download Original File
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Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC.
