Jessie Mechem Ledford
(1909- )
Educator

Dunn, Durwood. "A Meditation on Pittman Center: An Interview with Jessie Mechem Ledford." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 50 (Spring 1991): 55-63.
Pittman was founded as an educational center in 1921 in a very isolated section of the East Tennessee mountains. In an interview conducted in 1989, Ledford describes her experiences at Pittman Center from 1922 to 1929.


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