A Three Mile Walk to A.J. Moore High School

ID: 1337 ~ Source: Aguilar, Robert, interviewed by Thomas Lee Charlton, September 29, 2005, in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. View the full interview
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Robert Aguilar remembers questioning why the African American students had to walk to school in the late 1950s.

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By Amanda Sawyer
In 1875, Professor Alexander James Moore of Paul Quinn College, concerned at the lack of quality education for African American children in Waco, began teaching small groups of young children out of his home. Though Reconstruction Legislature of…