1media/Picture10_thumb.jpg2021-08-03T10:17:12-07:00Grant Glass107afcf8873f422898a9c2e07c49ae3f625fc644373541“Stockard, Sallie Walker (1869-1963): Scan 1.” Portrait scan in the Portrait Collection #P0002, North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, The Wilson Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, https://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/dig_nccpa/id/3695.plain2021-08-03T10:17:12-07:00Grant Glass107afcf8873f422898a9c2e07c49ae3f625fc644
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1media/Picture10.jpg2021-08-03T10:16:08-07:001898 - Sallie Walker Stockard (1869-1963) Graduates4Sallie Walker Stockard becomes the first woman to graduate from the University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree for her thesis Nature in Poetry. She received her Master of Arts from UNC in 1900.plain2021-09-01T08:04:20-07:0001/01/1898Sallie Walker Stockard becomes the first woman to graduate from the University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree for her thesis Nature in Poetry. She received her Master of Arts from UNC in 1900. She taught in schools in Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, and published historical books and an adaptation of Song of Songs, a book of the Bible. Already a graduate of Guilford College when she enrolled at UNC, she gained admission under a 1897 trustees ordinance admitting women to postgraduate courses.
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Powell, William S. “Stockard, Sallie Walker.” Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, edited by William S. Powell. U of North Carolina P, 1994. Rpt. in NCPedia, https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/stockard-sallie.
