David Augustus Straker was an author, lawyer, and politician. He achieved success as a teacher and principal at St. Mary’s Public School. Straker was born and raised in Bridgetown, Barbados 1868 he moved to Kentucky, where he taught at a freedman’s school for one year. He enrolled at Howard University in 1869 and graduated two […]

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