can u gv the character sketch of ms. olivia a. davidson??

She was Booker Washington’s second wife. Born in Ohio, she began educating others of her race, right from a young age. Before joining the Tuskegee Institute, she had taught in Mississippi and in Memphis, Tennessee. Like Booker, she believed that book education was not enough to uplift the coloured people. She found the system of education practised at Hampton to be appropriate for this purpose.

Through public meetings, door-to-door visits and correspondence, Olivia was instrumental in raising funds for the Tuskegee Institute. Additionally, she was involved with the work at the Institute as the lady principal and a teacher. Booker, in his autobiography, praises her for this complete and utter dedication to her work ‘that she so dearly loved’.

Olivia was the epitome of kindness and selflessness. While in Mississippi, she spent days in nursing a student suffering from smallpox. This was when no one else was willing to care for the boy. Later, she volunteered her services as a nurse when yellow fever broke out in Memphis. This she did knowing that she herself was not immune to the disease.

Olivia was proud of her racial identity, refusing to deceive anyone on account of her being light in colour.