Picking Cotton and Attending School

ID: 2346 ~ 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 tells of what kinds of subjects they were taught at Moore High when they were not made to work in the fields picking cotton.

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…