New Moore is the Same Moore

ID: 2322 ~ Source: Gilbert, Robert, interviewed by Rufus Spain, October 12, 1971, in Waco, Texas, Baylor Institute for Oral History. View Full Interview (Interview 4).
This file appears in: A. J. Moore High School

Robert Gilbert expresses his disappointment when he found out there would be Jefferson-Moore High and Waco High, leaving the schools segregated.

This file appears in: A. J. Moore High School

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…