"Tenth Annual Report of the Principals of the Calhoun Colored School, of Calhoun, Lowndes County, Alabama, with the Reports of the Heads of Departments."

In the report the principal explains the activities and success of the school, mentioning specific programs, events, and statistics. He also discusses the purpose for the institution and stresses the need for similar educational opportunities for the poor white population in the county: "Lownde...

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Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/2922
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Summary:In the report the principal explains the activities and success of the school, mentioning specific programs, events, and statistics. He also discusses the purpose for the institution and stresses the need for similar educational opportunities for the poor white population in the county: "Lowndes County is one of those black-majority counties which will naturally make a severe testing field for the new movement for 'education in the country districts of the South,' which has recently begun to make itself felt...We are deeply gratified and greatly encouraged by the appearance of the new movement for education in the South, especially as it has no color line in it, but desires to give even-handed justice to both races, and puts needed emphasis on the rural districts...At the end of ten years it is a great regret that the work for the white children belonging to the poor and neglected part of our population could not have gone on at the same time. It is a part of our certain knowledge that