Sarah Smith Tompkins Garnet (Q490833)
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HC-PER-35653
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Sarah Smith Tompkins Garnet
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Seamstress
Educator
Sarah Smith Tompkins
Sarah Smith Tompkins Garnet
Free before 13th Amendment. The first African American principal in a New York public school, she also founded a night school, fought proposed school closures, and organized what was then the only African American women's suffrage organization in Brooklyn.