CORRECTING IDENTITIES(TM)
We see social media posts with these two women saying they are the same person. They are not.
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The woman on the left is Mary Jane Patterson, born enslaved in Raleigh, NC. September 12, 1840, and died September 24, 1894 (aged 54) in Washington, D.C.
Mary Jane Patterson was the oldest child of Henry Irving Patterson (Birth: ca.1806 Death: December 28, 1886 (79-80) Raleigh, North Carolina), and Emeline Eliza (Taylor- born estimated between 1792 and 1800).

There is conflicting data on how many siblings she had, but most sources cite between seven and ten.
Henry Patterson worked as a bricklayer and plasterer who gained his freedom either by buying his life back or self-emancipating himself and his family, after Mary was born, in 1840.
After this, he moved his family north to Ohio. The Pattersons settled in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1856. Oberlin had a large community of Black families; some were freed slaves and some were fugitive slaves.
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The woman on the right is Mary Jane Patterson born on February 12th, 1924, in Marietta, Ohio and died April 8th, 2009. Her mother's family, originally from Virginia, had come to Ohio before the Civil War and had deep roots in the state. Both parents were educated: her mother was a librarian and her father worked in the post office.

The family was connected to the Wesleyan Methodist Church. " We grew up, my sister and brother and I, with a sense of history, because both my father and mother were interested in historical things."

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Here is some information about Mary Jane Patterson, the woman on the right.
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Excerpt of Mary Jane Patterson born Feb. 12, 1924.

Mary Jane Patterson was born on February 12,1924, in Marietta, Ohio. At that time in southern Ohio, very few African American families lived there. Mary Jane spoke of this time fondly and noted that she was not very aware of race relations growing up because she lived in an integrated town. After her high school graduation, she moved to Columbus, Ohio, where her worldview changed drastically. It was her first encounter with more extreme forms of segregation, and she became more acquainted with the blooming civil rights movement taking hold in the 1940s.

She enrolled in Ohio State University (OSU) where she received undergraduate degrees in philosophy and accounting. She worked several jobs throughout this time—first as a riveter during WWII, then as an accountant for an insurance company, and later for the IRS—all while remaining a devout Presbyterian. She later began working at the YWCA as an Assistant Teenage Program Director. While working at the YMCA, Mary Jane received her master’s in social work from OSU.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Mary Jane’s involvement in the civil rights movement only grew. She was an active member of the NAACP and was a strong opponent of apartheid in South Africa. It was because of her community and Civil Rights work that she was asked to become an elder at Bethany Presbyterian Church in Columbus in 1960. She was only in her 30s.

The Presbyterian Church attempted to recruit her for missionary work in Africa in 1962 and 1963, but Mary Jane thought that there was more work to be done in America, so she declined. Instead, she helped to organize a local group’s participation in the March on Washington. The following year, she participated in “Freedom Summer”, where she helped African Americans in Mississippi register to vote. Finally, in 1965, after tirelessly working in the United States, the Church convinced her to go to Kenya.
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Link to source: https://www.history.pcusa.org/.../confronting-revolution....
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Here is more information about Mary Jane Patterson (on left) born enslaved in Raleigh, NC. September 12, 1840.

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