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Anxious Days And Sleepless Nights
Christmas customs among the rural Black families around Tuskegee, the financial strain of the school's earliest years, and Washington's 1882 marriage to Fannie N. Smith, who died in 1884 shortly after their daughter Portia was born.
Christmas customs in rural AlabamaFinancial anxiety in the school's first yearsMarriage to Fannie N. Smith (1882)Fannie's death in 1884 and daughter Portia's birth