Anna Knight
Anna Knight lived a long and prosperous life. During her lifetime, she accomplished many things and did a lot of great things for the church and her community. She was born in 1874 in Mississippi, but her family was originally from Georgia where her mother was born a slave. The white man who bought the family was named Knight, and he moved the family to Mississippi. Obviously, he also gave the family their name. When slavery was abolished in 1863, the Knights moved in with one of their former owner's younger sons who didn't believe in slavery. They worked for him until they were able to buy land for themselves. They were, for obvious reasons, very poor, but through working together, they were able to build a home and a farm on the land they had bought and make the land prosper. Life in those days way very hard. When slavery ended, blacks were heavily discriminated against were not normally formally educated. This was also the case for Anna Knight. She did not go to school as a child, and was not taught to read or write. However, through playing with the young white children in her neighborhood, she was able to convince them to teach her to read and write. She learned to write by copying words in the sand. Like a
good neighbor, Anna taught the children younger than her the things she had learned. In this way, she was teacher even as a young child. The headquarters for the Southeastern Union Conference was located in Atlanta at that time, and they asked Anna to start the first sanitarium there. They also asked her to serve as medical matron for the sanitarium. Once again, Anna encountered opposition to what she was trying to do. Finally, she had to open a private treatment room in her home. The conference aided her in her program by asking her to take over the Bible instructor's work. There was already a two-teacher school in place there, and Anna added night courses to the available curriculum there. Because of her missionary work, the school was overcrowded very soon. Anna did attempt to attend school, but was denied the privilege because of her color. The matron of the school did have pity on her, however, and had Anna assist her with her work. She also taught Anna privately, and Anna learned lessons that would greatly benefit her later in life. A couple, the Chambers, took Anna under their wings, and home schooled her while she tried to get into school. Finally, in 1894, she was able to enroll at Mount Vernon Academy in Ohio.
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