Mary Jane Dickson Harris, One of Asheville’s (NC) First Black Teachers.
She was the daughter of Isaac Dickson, mother of Jessie Stoke.

Sources: HBH139 - Digitalnc.
Heritage of Black Highlanders Collection, UNC Asheville Ramsey Library.
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"The first grade teachers at Beaumont Street, “the colored school,” were Mrs. Ford and Miss Mary Dickson, Isaac’s Dickson daughter, who had 85 students to instruct between them—possibly in one large classroom."

Excerpt source: Post written by Joe Newman, board member of the Friends of the North Carolina Room. Research by Joe Newman and Zoe Rhine, librarian in the North Carolina Room.