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'Mildred Pitts Walter, a Los Angeles schoolteacher who grew up in the Jim Crow South and wrote award-winning children’s books focusing on Black characters, filling a void in her students’ reading material, died on May 19 in Redwood City, Calif. She was 103.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/books/mildred-pitts-walter-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2VA.1pBc.qGf-L2TWHP6h&smid=url-share#writers #writing #BlackHistory #BlackExcellence #obituaries
