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- Birth nameMyra Lillian Davis
- Myra Davis Hemmings was a schoolteacher in the San Antonio public school system for over fifty years; she was also active in the African-American community, particularly in amateur theatrics. She and her husband John formed the Hemmings Players, a group of amateur actors who put on plays and other performances in and about San Antonio. Mrs. Hemmings, a 1913 graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C., also earned a master's degree in speech from Northwestern in 1947. She is best known in some circles as one of the founders of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority; her personal papers are on deposit in the archives of the library of University of Texas - San Antonio.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Jane Margaret Laight
- SpouseJohn W. Hemmings(1922 - ?) (his death)
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