Fannie Mae Elder was a 15-year-old Black female from Atlanta, Georgia, whose death on March 23, 1951 was first accepted as a tragic illness. At the time, the story told around her was that she had died of pneumonia while living in the household of her father, Reverend William M. Elder, and her stepmother, Roberta Elder. In the moment, it seems to have looked like one more sorrow in a family already touched by too much sickness and loss, and her death passed without the kind of scrutiny that migh
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