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In 1856, Sallie Eola Reneau persuaded the Legislature to charter a public college for women in Mississippi.

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Sallie Eola Reneau

Yesterday, Mississippi University of Women President Claudia A. Limbert honored Sallie Eola Reneau, 131 years after her death. After an exhaustive 22-month search for an appropriate new name for the …

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