Chalk Class

ID: 2345 ~ Source: Smith, Willie Long and Clemmie Holloway Long, interviewed by Rebecca Jimenez, April 16, 1985, in Waco, Texas, Baylor Institute for Oral History. View Full Interview (Interview 2).
This file appears in: A. J. Moore High School

Willie Smith talks about her chalk class as Moore High and what she remembers from her time there in the first decade of the 20th century before her graduation in 1910.

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…