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"Improved School Facilities for Negro Children."
A Florence Herald report of Sept. 22, 1922 that in order to provide increased facilities to Florence's African-American children the board of education has had the old Fifth Ward two room school building (built ca. 1890s) relocated to the John F.…
"Interested in the Children of His Race"
This is a letter to the editor in which George Seawright, telling African American parents to make sure their kids are going to school instead of "roaming the streets."
"Leighton Student Named Winner For Question On Generation Gap"
This is a newspaper story about Lee Authry King, who won a set of encyclopedias for her question in the Teen Talk section of the Florence Times.
"MLK Memorial Committee awards 18 scholarships"
This is a newspaper article about the MLK Memorial Committee and their scholarship awards.
"Negro Teachers Elected," 1954
This is part of a newspaper article about the election of teachers to schools in Lauderdale County by the Board of Education. The board, which oversaw the operation of 32 white schools and 10 "Negro" schools, elected teachers to serve in each of the…
"School Figures"
This is a newspaper account of Lauderdale County schools superintendents monetary breakdown for the district, including information on white and black schools in 1882(1) and another from 1903(2). After the Constitution of 1901, funds for schools were…
"Second Jabberwock Is Big Success"
This is a newspaper account of the second Jabberwock, held in 1969.
"Separate no more: once the racial barrier was hurdled in education, the rest, as they say, is history."
This is a newspaper article about the integration of Florence's schools.
"The Colored Free School"
This is a letter to the editor from George Washington Seawright. Florence historian Lee Freeman notes: "In this letter Sewaright is calling attention that certain black teachers, Rev. Henry Hopkins and Prof. WR Wood, of the Colored Free School cannot…
"The Colored Grammar School"
These are articles relating to the grammar school for African Americans in Florence in 1869. Florence historian Lee Freeman notes, "I'm not sure but I think the Freedmen's Public School by 1869 had become the Florence Colored Grammar School. By 1869…
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