Albert Pryor is dressed in a dark suit coat with a patterned tie and has a dark, neatly trimmed full beard and mustache. In 1954 he became the first African American hired to teach high school in the Springfield, MA, school system. In 1967 he was hired as a full professor at Western New England College. He retired from there in 1983. On back "WFCR."
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