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Sarah Garnet
Sarah Garnet was a pioneering principal in the New York City public school system and one of the most important early suffragists. As an educator she helped to integrate New York City schools, and as a suffragist she helped to organize the Equal Suffrage Club, which worked for women's rights beyond Garnet's own lifetime.
Sarah was born in Queens County, New York, in an area now in Brooklyn, in 1831, the eldest of ten children. She was named Minsarah J. Smith, but her first name was commonly shortened to the familiar Sarah. Her parents, Sylvanus, a prosperous pig farmer, and Ann Eliza Smith, were of mixed Native American, White, and African-American descent. However, in 1845, at
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