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Alice T. M. Miller was one of four African American teachers in the Boston public schools in 1890. The following year African American activists of the South End Equal Rights League supported her bid for a two year seat on the Boston School Board. She ran on the Republican and Prohibition tickets. Miller had been educated in Paris before entering the Boston Normal school. The influential Independent Women Voters organization declined to endorse Miller as they had already endorsed a different candidate for the seat. They did encourage women to vote for Miller if they didn't want to vote for the male candidate the IWV had endorsed.
