As much as we don't like mistakes, but sometimes despite routine proofreadings, they creep into our pages and we don't discover them until it's too late! Please make note of these corrections, preferably in your calendars, so that these errors will not be perpetuated indefinitely!
"365 Days of Black History" engagement calendar
September 14 - 20 - Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward -
(The biographical information on Dr. Steward is sketchy and contradictory)
Date she graduated from postgraduate studies recorded in calendar as 1860.
ERROR!CORRECTION! It seems she completed her postgraduate studies at Long Island College Hospital in 1870.
(Please make that change in your calendar)Also: (last paragraph) "Steward remarried and became resident physician at Wilberforce University in
Washington, DC in 1911;
WHAT!!!
Wilberforce University is in Ohio and is the oldest private African-American University in the world. It's president is former U.S. Congressman, Dr. Floyd Flake.