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If one word describes me, it would be TEACHER.—Olive Wright Covington
This summer my big sister Olive Wright Covington passed away. Olive was a beloved daughter, sister, mother, grandmother, aunt, church and community leader, mentor, and friend, and throughout her life she was respected and loved as a gifted and passionate educator. The Children’s Defense Fund is especially grateful for her service laying the foundation for the flagship CDF Freedom Schools® program.
Olive left our hometown of Bennettsville, South Carolina to attend Fisk University in Nashville, and after graduation returned to South Carolina, where she began her professional life teaching in schools at every level. She then moved to Washington, D.C. with her husband and two daughters, Joy and Maggie, where she taught in the D.C. Public Schools for eight years.
Alongside her work in the classroom, she began developing and leading teacher training programs. After she retired she moved back to Bennettsville, and there she began a new phase of “retirement” supporting CDF Freedom Schools’ early development.
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