FREDDYE LEE MOON DAUGHTER BLACK AFRICAN AMERICANA PHOTOS (c. 1938-40s)

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Grouping of 4 items including three photos (one of which is postcard size) and on back of envelope a handwrittwen birth announcement for 'Freddye Lee Moon St. Anthony Hospital, Oklahoma City 2:39 A.M. Sun. October 16, 1938' and at bottom reads, 'Dr. J.B. Eshridge , Jr. & ? E.C. Moon' all showing/related to the daughter of Frederic Douglas Moon. Two baby images and one birthday party of approximately 4 year olds with Freddye second from right. Varying sizes all on album pages and partially laminated down. it may be possible to remove yet with risk of damage. Fine as is condition. This photo grouping is part of an album of Moon related photographs and ephemera. A very scarce estate find! Biographical information on Freddye Lee Moon who is a well educated woman and has lived much of her life in Chicago, Illinois can be found at http://prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=1455161
According to the website http://www.okcps.org/domain/866 and homepage of the F.D. Moon Academy located in Oklahoma City:
In 1940 Frederick Douglass Moon moved to Oklahoma City where he became the Douglass High School principal. He continued in that position until 1961. Considered the "dean" of African-American education, he was elected to the Oklahoma City Board of Education in 1972 and served as its first African-American president in 1974. He served at a time when federally mandated desegregation occurred within the Oklahoma City Public School System. During this time the program of busing students across town was carried out in order to bring racial equality to the schools.
Another excellent source of information on Frederick Douglas Moon (1896-1975) can be found at the Oklahoma Historical Society website http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=MO011
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