The First Female Leader in San Diego Schools, Bertha Pendleton, Showed Her “Willingness to Share with everyone.”

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Research materials were scarce in the segregated library of rural Alabama in the 1940s, so the budding young researcher found a novel way to access the information she craved. She convinced local authorities to allow her to use the public library after closing hours, when the young Black woman would be less subject to the whims of racial discrimination. It wasn't the last time Bertha Pendleton would navigate successfully in a world that didn't a…