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Regina Anderson was born in the Hyde Park section of Chicago, Illinois, to Margaret Simons Anderson and William Grant "Habeas Corpus" Anderson. Her mother was a ceramicist, and her father was a skilled attorney. Due to the success of her father, Anderson grew up in a respectable, upper-middle-class family. After her parents' divorce, she was sent to live with her grandparents from her mother's side in Normal, Illinois. After spending a few years in Normal, she journeyed back to Chicago and graduated from Hyde Park High School in 1919. Anderson studied at the historically black college Wilberforce University and worked in its Carnegie Library.