Learning to Spell

ID: 2339 ~ Source: Washington, Maggie Langtham, interviewed by Doni Van Ryswyk, May 19, 1988, in Waco, Texas, Baylor Institute for Oral History. View Full Interview (Interview 3).
This file appears in: A. J. Moore High School

Maggie Washington describes how they learned to spell at Moore High.

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…