Benjamin F. Bowles

Benjamin Franklin Bowles (1869–1928), commonly written as B. F. Bowles, was an African American civil rights leader, teacher, high school principal, and the founder and president of Douglass University, a 20th-century college for African Americans in segregated St. Louis, Missouri.

Not to be confused with Benjamin F. Bowles (1824–1892), who was married to Ada Chastina Bowles.
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