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Webster High School (Texas)
Webster High School was a school for African Americans in Louisiana during segregation. It succeeded Webster Training School. History Schooling for African Americans in Webster Parish was in churches until 1922 when Schools Superintendent E. S. Richardson helped organize funding for Webster Training School with Rosenwald Schools funding. A wood frame building for the school was constructed on the eastern edge of town and it offered vocational training. By 1932 Webster Training Institute had several buildings and expanded course offerings. The Webster Parish Library established in 1929 delivered books to local schools including Webster Training School. A new school building was constructed for it in the 1950s. In 1959 a study comparing student performance in typewriting classes at the school was published. A 1962 document states construction of homes was taught at the school. Willie D. Moore attracted attention and drew comparison to Satchel Paige for his pitching prowess at Webs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Training School (United States)
A training school, or county training school, was a type of segregated school for African Americans, African American students found in the United States and Canada. In the Southern United States they were established to educate African Americans at elementary and secondary levels, especially as teachers; and in the Northern United States they existed as educational reformatory schools. A few training schools still exist, however they exist in a different context. History The training school movement began in 1911. The southern training schools were supported by northern philanthropists, roughly from 1910 to 1930. The Slater Fund supported many of the schools. Philanthropic organizations had their own criteria for funding support. In the segregated Jim Crow South (roughly until the 1950s), schools for African Americans could not be high schools so they were called training schools and “emphasized vocational training and domestic science over academic subjects”. In the south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosenwald Schools
The Rosenwald School project built more than 5,000 schools, shops, and teacher homes in the Education in the United States, United States primarily for the education of African-American children in the Southern United States, South during the early 20th century. The project was the product of the partnership of Julius Rosenwald, a Jewish-American tailor, clothier who became part-owner and president of Sears Holdings Corporation, Sears, Roebuck and Company and the African-American leader, educator, and philanthropist Booker T. Washington, who was president of the Tuskegee University, Tuskegee Institute. The need arose from the chronic underfunding of public education for African-American children in the South, as black people had been discriminated against at the turn of the century and excluded from the political system in that region. Children were required to attend School segregation in the United States, segregated schools, and even those did not exist in many places. Rosenwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satchel Paige
Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige (July 7, 1906 – June 8, 1982) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball (MLB). His career spanned five decades and culminated with his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, National Baseball Hall of Fame. A right-handed pitcher, Paige first played for the semi-professional Mobile Tigers from 1924 to 1926. He began his professional baseball career in 1926 with the Chattanooga Black Lookouts of the Negro Southern League (1920–36), Negro Southern League and became one of the most famous and successful players from the Negro leagues. On town tours across the United States, Paige would sometimes have his infielders sit down behind him and then routinely strike out the side. At age 42 in 1948, Paige made his debut for the Cleveland Indians; to this day, this makes him the oldest debutant in the National League or American League history. Additionally, Paige was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana Interscholastic Athletic And Literary Organization
The Louisiana Interscholastic Athletic and Literary Organization (LIALO) was a segregated student competition league in Louisiana during the 20th-century. It was created as an alternative to the Louisiana High School Athletic Association (LHSAA), which was segregated during that time. At its peak, the LIALO had a membership of 280 schools. History Founding The LIALO was founded at Peabody High School in Alexandria, Louisiana in 1935 by William H. Gray, a professor at Southern University. Initially created solely for athletic competition, in 1940 it began sponsoring academic competition as well. Academic competitions included speech, woodworking, bookkeeping, mathematics, and music. These competitions went up to the state level, offering a complete alternative to the LHSAA. Fight for desegregation In 1962, the LHSAA removed the "whites only" membership clause from their charter, however, it continued to maintain an unofficial policy of exclusion. St. Augustine High School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
