The Pearsontown (colored) Citizens’ association of the Patterson township school district will hold an educational rally at the Good Hope Baptist Church, Fayetteville Road, this afternoon at 4 o’clock.
The meeting is in response to the generous offer of the Durham county board of education which has arranged to give the section a new school to cost more than $5,000, conditioned upon the sum of $500 to be raised by the patrons of the present school and citizens of the district.
A campaign has been under way during the past week under Rev. T.A. Grady, chairman of the association, and a committee of 15. J.C. Scarborough, local colored undertaker and business man, announces that the amount to be raised will be fully secured by Sunday night, judging from reports of the canvassing committee. The offer was limited in time and a report must be made to the board by tomorrow.
A literary and musical program is arranged for the meeting today. Prof. W.G. Pearson is to be the chief speaker. Some of the best musical talent of the city will furnish music for the occasion.
From page 10 of the Durham Morning Herald, June 3, 1923
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