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Fredericka Brown

Born, Fredericka Simmons, later married and changed to Brown, has lived in West Coconut Grove formally known as “Colored Town.” She grew up on Charles Avenue and later moved to Franklin Avenue in Coconut Grove. She attended Coconut Grove Training School now, George Washington Carver Elementary School. She later went on to attend Bethune-Cookman University earn her B.S. in childhood development education. She moved back to West Coconut Grove and began her educational career as an elementary school teacher.

Thelma Gibson

Mrs. Thelma Vernell Anderson Gibson spent all of her childhood and early adulthood on Charles Avenue in West Coconut Grove, formally known as “Colored Town”. St. Augustine University School of Nursing in Raleigh, NC. After graduating, she returned home and started her nursing career at Jackson Memorial Hospital (Main facility) in Miami, FL.

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