Bibb County GaArchives Photo Tombstone.....Love, Cleopatra 
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Cemetery:           Linwood Cemetery
Name:               Cleopatra Love

Date Of Photograph: June 25, 2005
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Cleopatra Love

(No information on the marker)




Additional Comments:
Cleopatra Love died on 15 May 1982.

     Cleopatra Love was a woman with a mission.  America in the early 1900's 
was not a place for a woman of color to be a strong and independent force 
standing up for what she believed.  For Cleopatra Love, life was more than 
just an opportunity to learn, but and opportunity to teach.  She was an 
advocate for the teaching of black history and for most of her life strived to 
make all people aware that black history was more than just history of black 
people.
     Cleopatra Love was born in Eufaula, Alabama.  When she was four her 
family moved to Macon, Georgia.  Cleopatra's father was a home designer and 
builder, while her mother maintained a career in designing and dressmaking.  
Her father designed a home on Monroe Street in which they lived.  Cleopatra's 
education began at the request of her mother at the age of four. Her mother 
sent her small daughter t school with a friend's daughter named Daisy.  That 
day, Daisy showed up at school with Cleopatra and Miss Eloise, her teacher, 
asked her why she had the child with her.  Cleopatra bravely told the teacher 
that she came to learn.  She became the youngest child in the first grade 
class.  Cleopatra decided when she was about eight years old she wanted to be 
a teacher.  That decision was the defining decision of her life.
      While in the fourth grade at Green Street School, her teacher told the 
principal that her class was so smart they should test to go to the sixth 
grade.  The principal made the decision to move the students up without the 
testing and the whole class moved to the sixth grade.  While Cleopatra was in 
the sixth grade, a man by the name of L.H. Williams was her teacher.  He 
suggested that some of his students move ahead to the eighth grade at Ballard 
Normal High School and Cleopatra was among those students.
     Ballard was an all black school in Macon in the early 1900's.  Cleopatra 
described the school as a big two story building on the corner of New Street 
and Pine Street.  She stayed at the school for four years and graduated in 
1910 with honors.  She went on to Atlanta University studying for a masters 
degree.  She also attended the University of Chicago and New York University.
     Cleopatra began teaching in Atlanta at a school called Booker T. 
Washington in the late 1920's.  She went on to teach black history at Florida 
A & M and Fort Valley State College until she retired in 1955.

This excerpt was taken from the "Climbing the Hill" booklet written by Mercer 
University students and this particular part was written by Ashley Hazelrig.  
I have put only parts of the whole text and condensed for space. 

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