Largely through the insistent efforts of School Commissioner Tillett, the negroes of Charlotte are to have as fine a school building as those of any city in the State. A spacious piece of land has been acquired with a frontage on three streets and sufficiently extensive to permit the establishment of playgrounds in addition to a commodious school structure. The board of school commissioners will apply $150,000 of the original school bond issue to this school and the architect is now drawing plans for a building that will cost $125,000.
It is delightful to record that the negro population of the community is to have the benefits of this part of the bond money and are to be advantaged by a school building comparable with any others in the city. We certainly owe the negroes that much. They represent a class of our people for whom educational resources ought to do as much as for any other class. Beside the need which it is apparent in them for educational advantages, the negroes of Charlotte pay a right sizeable portion of taxes and, therefore, are entitled to receive benefits of a direct nature from their tribute to the city and the State.
Commissioner Tillett has interested himself in this endeavor since he became a member of the board and has finally concluded negotiations for the land and secured consent of the remainder of the board that the $150,000 allocated from the original fund for the improvement of educational resources for negroes here shall become instantly available.
Editorial from The Charlotte News, May 2, 1922, Julian S. Miller, editor.
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