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Lane College classroom, circa 1923 (Lane College Scrapbook, Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

During her senior year at Lane College in 1923, Lessie Belle Spann created a 45-page scrapbook. UT Libraries digitized this hundred-year-old journal from its manuscript collections, and the Lane College Scrapbook<\/a> is now viewable online as a digital collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lessie Belle Spann, ca. 1923 (Lane College Scrapbook, UT Special Collections)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Lane College, established in 1882, was among the earliest Black-founded and run colleges in the United States. It opened its doors in Jackson, Tennessee, as Colored Methodist Episcopal (CME) High School, soon becoming Lane College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spann\u2019s scrapbook includes photos of teachers and friends, messages from classmates, handwritten transcriptions of the class poem and the Alma Mater, and tipped-in copies of invitations and programs from college events. Printed programs reveal that Spann was the class Historian and that she delivered a Class Day oration titled \u201cBuilding of Character, the Aim of the School.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spann (1903\u2013?) was a Jackson, Tennessee, native who lived in the same home on Payne Street from her birth until the mid-1940s. At this point, little is known of her life. While at Lane, she was in the teacher training program and, according to census records, seems to have built a career of teaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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