| Summary: | In addition to general facts and events from the history of the institution (previously the Dallas Male and Female Academy), Ferguson discusses the merits of free public education and the "opposition from good but mistaken men": "Something of the old feeling against free education by the State still lingered in the minds of many, while it was argued that it was unjust to tax one man to educate another's children, and that the mixing of the children of the rich and the poor, the higher and the lower classes, would degrade and contaminate the former. When the question of taxation came to be submitted to the owners of real estate, a brisk war opened through the local papers upon the whole system." The Selma school board reprinted the text, which was originally written in the 1880s, as a tribute to Ferguson after her death in 1932. She had been a teacher at the school and was appointed to replace Richard E. Hardaway as the principal of Selma City Schools in 1907.
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