Talk:Mary Meachum

Merge with John Berry Meachum
I was about to clean up and add citations to this article, but I realized that for the article to be complete, I would need to copy over a lot of information from her husband John Berry Meachum's article. It makes more sense to move content over to her husband's article, where she is mentioned throughout the article.

One thing that I am not clear about, though, is that some sources say that she and her husband ran the schools... but there are also sources that said that she made her mark for her signature. With education so important to JBM, it seems strange that he would not have helped his wife learn to write her own name at least. The only thing that makes some sense is that she might have used her mark to not appear to be literate during a period when there was such hostility towards educated African Americans. Any thoughts on this are much appreciated!–CaroleHenson (talk) 05:34, 15 February 2022 (UTC)