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William Howard Day was an abolitionist, minister, orator, editor, and educator born in New York City who traveled in the U.S., Canada, and Britain on behalf of antislavery and free Blacks. He served as General Secretary of the A.M.E. Zion Church. After 1870 he lived in Harrisburg, where he edited the newspaper "Our National Progress." In 1878 he became the first African American elected to the Harrisburg School Board, and he was its president from 1891 to 1893. He was buried in Lincoln Cemetery.
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