From the Archives: Cumberland County, NC (ca. 1921)

August 16, 2023 /

Throughout the 1920s, Dr. George E. Davis, the supervisor of Rosenwald buildings for North Carolina, traveled the state to determine educational needs within black communities. Upon viewing this unidentified African-American school, he wrote: “School now in session. One (typical) of the Cumberland County, N.C. Negro Public Schools. Some worse–few better.”

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