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Arts & Life
Edith Renfrow Smith made history and championed education in her 111 years
Natalie Dunlap, Dani Gehr, Charity Nebbe
This Iowan was the first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College. She lived to be a supercentenarian, dying in 2026.

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