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Figure
184. Poster: Fannie Jolly
Ellison: a woman rice grower
Among all
the Mars Bluff rice growers who were identified, the only
woman rice grower found was Fannie Jolly Ellison. Her ancestors may have come from
an ethnic group in Africa where the rice cultivation was
done by women. (Photograph
1926 or later, courtesy of Ida Zanders.
Poster by Amelia Vernon, donated 1998.) |
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Copyright Amelia Wallace Vernon. All rights reserved, 1998.
Revised, 2007.