Carlotta Stewart Lai 1881 –1952
Lai was an educator and administrator in the Hawaiian public schools for four decades and the first African American school principal in Honolulu. She worked as a teacher and educational leader at a time when these occupations were largely closed to African Americans on the U. S. mainland, and she achieved professional success at a time when African Americans represented only 0.2 percent of the population of Hawaii.
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