Selma Burke
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About
American sculptor who founded two art schools in New York and Pennsylvania and is well known for her relief of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Before Fame
She graduated from the St. Agnes Training School for Nurses in Raleigh in 1924.
Trivia
She is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.
Family Life
She was born into a farming family and her father was an AME Church Zion Minister.
Associated With
Her last monumental work was a statue of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1980.
