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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Marie C. Bolden, A Black Teen In Cleveland, Helped Win A National Spelling Title In 1908
Description: Today in 1908, a team of students from Cleveland won a spelling title at the annual meeting of the National Education Association, thanks in part to a Black 14 year old named Marie C. Bolden. Plus: today in Lincoln, it might be the Nebraska Elvis Festival. Unless it isn't.
Cleveland girl's spelling victory created racial controversy, national headlines in 1908 (Cleveland.com)
Nebraska Elvis Festival
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