Grace Cummings

Grace Shimm Cummings (1865–1910) was an American educator.
Grace Ella Shimm was born in Pennsylvania, the elder daughter of William Y. Shimm, a barber, and Sarah A. Thomas Shimm, a teacher and writer. She had a younger sister, Erminie (Minnie). Grace Shimm graduated from Miner Normal School in 1884, as class valedictorian.
Grace and Erminie Shimm both became teachers in the segregated schools of Washington, D.C.Charlene Hodges Byrd Collection, National Museum of African American History and Culture. Grace... meer