Wants More Negro High Schools
Dear Editor:
Please allow me space in our valuable paper to say that the schools of Johnston County are putting over one of the best educational programs of its history. Mrs. Laura J.A. King, supervisor of Negro schools in Johnston County, with Prof. H.B. Marrow and his strong educational board behind her are doing a great work. It has been my pleasure to visit a good number of schools of this county this school year and I find all the teachers hard on their job, making best their chance.
Clayton school with other rural schools with only a six-months term is behind all city schools of the county because of its short term. I think whenever the colored people are behind educationally, they are behind in thrift, religion and everything that tends to uplift the race. I think that is why so few of us are doing things worth while in Clayton, and our chances are so slender. There are no enterprises among negroes here and we are too ignorant to co-operate for good. Negroes in Selma and Smithfield who have been given a chance of a long school term have inspiration as well as aspiration and are doing their part—building good homes and other industries. And, too, I think there should be a chance for negroes to obtain a high school education in this county. There are 12 or 15 boys and girls getting high school training in Wake County when we need them here. The county needs the money that is being spent there. We do hereby ask the educational authorities to provide ways and means to eliminate this output of money.
Yours to serve,
N.L. Horton
Clayton, N.C., February 20
From the editorial page of The Smithfield Herald, Feb. 24, 1925
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