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  • Description is exactly "(1) This is a newspaper advertisement written by Oscar M. Waring for the Freedmen's Public School, which opened in 1866. Florence historian Lee Freeman notes: "the Freedmen’s Public School, which succeeded an earlier school taught in 1865 by native black and former Wesleyan College bootblack "Prof." George Poole (1830-aft. 1900), opened on October 29, 1866 at Church Springs Methodist Episcopal (ME) Church and was founded by the Pittsburgh Freedmen’s Aid Commission. The principal was noted black educator Oscar M. Waring (1837-1911). The school, founded to educate the children of Florence’s freed slaves, eventually morphed into the Florence District School for Negroes which was attended by a young WC Handy in the 1880s." "

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(1) This is a newspaper advertisement written by Oscar M. Waring for the Freedmen's Public School, which opened in 1866. Florence historian Lee Freeman notes: "the Freedmen’s Public School, which succeeded an earlier school taught in 1865 by native…
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