The Naming of Jefferson-Moore High

ID: 2336 ~ Source: Wilburn, Curtis, intervewed by James SoRelle and Bettie Beard, August 15, 1985, in Waco, Texas, Baylor Institute for Oral History. View Full Interview (Interview 4). 
This file appears in: A. J. Moore High School

Curtis Wilburn discusses the uproar in the black community when Moore High closed and the new school was to be named Thomas Jefferson High School.

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…