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Bessie Blount Griffin
American physical therapist and forensic scientist
Bessie Virginia Griffin, better known as Bessie Blount,[1] (November 24, 1914 – December 30, 2009), was an American writer, nurse, physical therapist, inventor and forensic scientist.
Early life
Bessie Blount Griffin was born on November 24, 1914[2] in the Hickory, Virginia community of Princess Anne County (now known as the city of Chesapeake).[3]Bessie '
Education
Blount attended Diggs Chapel - a one-room schoolhouse built by Black members of the local community - in Hickory, Virginia.
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The school was built after the Civil War to educate former slaves, their children, and Native Americans.[4][2]
In an interview with The Virginian, Griffin recalled that her school "didn't have textbooks.
[They] later got them from the white schools." Students that attended Diggs Chapel learned to read by quoting verses from the Bible. While attending Di