Samaria (Mitcham) Bailey

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Samaria (Mitcham) Bailey, born June 29, 1947 in Macon, Georgia. Instrumental figure in the civil rights movement. One of the first American females of African descent to be accepted into Mercer University. The first American female of African descent to integrate Miller senior high, an all white female school located in Macon Ga, in 1964. Her story was featured in the best selling novel, Stem of Jesse: The Costs of Community at a 1960s Southern School by Will D. Campbell.

Samaria sought him out,^[1]

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[edit] References

• Campbell, Will D., (2002). "The Stem of Jesse: The Costs of Community at a 1960s Southern School", 111(214). Mercer University Press.