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Cecelia Adkins

African-American publisher From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Cecelia Nabrit Adkins (September 3, 1923 – January 2, 2007)[1][2] was an African-American publisher from Atlanta. She was the first woman, and first lay person, elected to the position of executive director of the Sunday School Publishing Board of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. In this position, she was responsible for serving 35,000 churches and over 8 million constituents.[3][4] She took up the position in 1975.[5]

She died in Nashville, Tennessee, aged 83.[6]

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