This webpage is dedicated to uncovering the history of the Pine Street School in Conway, Arkansas. Before racial integration was enforced, the school on Pine Street was one of the few colored schools operating in Faulkner County. Although much of the site
In 1877 Gov. Zebulon Vance urged an education reform program upon a skeptical North Carolina legislature. Central to Vance's plan was the establishment of state-funded normal schools for the training of teachers. The first normal school for the train
Pearl High School opened its doors in the fall of 1883 on South Summer Street (Fifth Avenue, South). The newly constructed public school for Negroes was named for Joshua F. Pearl, the city's first superintendent of public schools. T. W. Haley, a whit
In its effort to help document the history of African Americans in Virginia, this section of the Virginia Black History Archives web site focuses on the history of African Americans at Virginia Commonwealth University. Transcripts of oral histories, stude
Decatur County Training School (1927-1956), later Crowder High School (1956-1965), was the negro high school in Decaturville, Tennessee. It served negro students in Decatur and Perry counties, and drew some students from Hardin, Benton, and McNairy counti
At the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, Lutherville was a quaint village used as a summer resort for wealthy city families. Many black families came here from rural areas in maryland and Virginia for job opportunities ar
Montgomery High School in Lexington, Tennessee served black High School Students in Henderson and adjacent counties from 1927 to 1967. Web sit contains a history of the school, reunion boolkets, photographs, and miscellaneous items about the school.
In compliance with your request, I have the honor to submit for your consideration the following report concerning the Colored Agricultural and Normal University.
companion site to the PBS documentary about refugee scholars exiled from Nazi Germany who found new homes at historically Black universities in the American South.
