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ID: 2340 ~ Source: Shivers, Yvonne Reed, interviewed by Sean Sutcliffe, May 3, 2014, in Waco, Texas, Baylor Institute for Oral History. View Full Interview
This file appears in: A. J. Moore High School

Yvonne Shivers talks about where Moore High could play sports, hold prom, and have graduation and how that differed from the white schools.

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…