The Chronological History of Negro Education in Gates County, North Carolina and Its 1-3 Room Schoolhouses
Author | : Linwood Morings Boone D Min |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2019-06-23 |
ISBN-10 | : 1546247173 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781546247173 |
Rating | : 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The Chronological History of the Negro Education in Gates County, North Carolina, and Its 1-2-3 Rooms Schoolhouses is Dr. Linwood Morings Boone's tribute to the past and a challenge to the future. This work demonstrates the importance of this impregnable, uncompromising, irresistible, slow but sure, God-given slogan: "Lift up your heads, oh men of Africa. And with courage in your hearts, move on to certain victory. On, men of Ethiopia. On!" Echoing throughout the work is the basic belief that people who do not know and love their own history, enjoy their own literature, revere their own heroes, and work toward their own goals and objectives have little expectations of moving forward. These early Negro teachers from Gates County were the hopes and dreams of their foreparents. They made it clear that no challenge was too great or opposition too strong that it could not be overcome through faith in God and committed team effort between parent and teacher! Their tenacity resulted in having 75 percent of the free people of color being able to read and write as revealed in the 1850 United States Census records of Gates County, North Carolina.