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Amelia Elizabeth Perry Pride (1857-1932) was one of the first black teachers in the Lynchburg public schools, 1880-1911. For the last 21 years of her career she was Principal of Polk Street Primary School. She was a graduate of Hampton Institute and a lifelong advocate of the school's philosophy of social advancement through "industrial" or vocational education. Among her many remarkable accomplishments, she was instrumental in making cooking, sewing, and other domestic courses part of the required curriculum of black public schools. So successful was the program that in 1949 the new girls' home economics building on the campus of Dunbar High School was named in her honor. Many other members of the prominent Pride family are buried nearby.
   
Amelia Perry Pride and her husband, Claiborne Gladman Pride, Sr.