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Anne Byrd <I>Firor</I> Scott

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Anne Byrd Firor Scott

Birth
Montezuma, Macon County, Georgia, USA
Death
6 Feb 2019 (aged 97)
Chapel Hill, Madison County, North Carolina, USA
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Author, historian, scholar, and Duke University professor. Her focus was on the history of women and of the American South. In July 2014, at the age of 93, she received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama in a ceremony at the White House. She married US Navy pilot Andrew MacKay Scott (1922-2005) in 1947.
Author, historian, scholar, and Duke University professor. Her focus was on the history of women and of the American South. In July 2014, at the age of 93, she received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama in a ceremony at the White House. She married US Navy pilot Andrew MacKay Scott (1922-2005) in 1947.


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