Six-Room Brick School Being Built for Whiteville Colored School District, Jan. 17, 1924

Negroes to Have New School Building

Plans are now being completed for a new brick school building for Whiteville school district, colored. The building will have six class rooms and a large auditorium and will be fully modern in all of its appointments. It will cost in the neighborhood of $5,000 and its erection will be a distinct triumph and a tribute to several well known colored people of Whiteville who have been untiring int heir efforts to secure funds.

Nine hundred dollars of the building fund comes from Mr. Rosenwald, a wealthy Jew, who is doing much to secure better schools for the negroes all over the southland. Fifteen hundred dollars is being given by the Board of Education and the colored people have raised $2,700 among themselves and a few white friends. Perhaps the largest individual contribution, secured by the colored people locally, was from Mr. D.L. Gore of Wilmington, who gave $250 towards the building.

From the front page of The News Reporter, Jan. 17, 1924