Teaching arabic
She became active in establishing the group’s Boston mosque and setting up its first day-care center.
But she broke away in 1959, became an orthodox Sunni Muslim and organized the Sarah A. Little School of Preparatory Arts in Boston, where children were taught Arabic, Swahili, French and Spanish.
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