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Madeline Anderson, First Black Woman to Direct a Televised Documentary Film
Born in 1923 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Madeline Anderson loved her weekly visits to the movie theater but was upset that she never saw Black people she could relate to on the screen. When she graduated from high school in 1945, she entered Millersville State Teacher’s College, where she was the only Black student, but dropped out after one year having suffered constant harassment.