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Grinnell's first Black woman graduate Edith Renfrow Smith dies at 111

Edith Renfrow Smith believed in using the time you were given. In 2019, standing before graduates at Grinnell College, she looked back on more than a century of a life spent breaking barriers.
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Edith Renfrow Smith, who witnessed more than a century of Black American history, dies at 111

Jan 5 (Reuters) - Edith Renfrow Smith grew up in the 1910s hearing her grandparents’ stories of surviving slavery, including a grandfather who escaped bondage with a group led by abolitionist John ...
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Dr. Edith Eger, Holocaust survivor and acclaimed psychologist, dies at 98

(KSWB/KUSI) — Dr. Edith Eva Eger, a holocaust survivor, author and renowned psychologist known for her work on the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, has died at the age of 98. Her family ...
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Edith Renfrow Smith, pioneer and witness to history, dies at 111

Edith Renfrow Smith died Friday at her home in Chicago. She was 111. In addition to a notably long life — she was one of a very small number of "supercentenarians," or people who live to at least 110 ...
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Edith Renfrow Smith, Who Witnessed More Than a Century of Black American History, Dies at 111

Edith Renfrow Smith, Who Witnessed More Than a Century of Black American History, Dies at 111 By Donna Bryson Jan 5 (Reuters) - Edith Renfrow Smith grew up in the 1910s hearing her grandparents’ ...