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Tuesday, July 07, 2020 / Published in African Americans, Asheville History, Education, Local History, Photograph Collection

New Research Reveals New Information:

Asheville’s First Public Schools For Blacks For more than a year, I have collected every newspaper article on the Beaumont Academy, Beaumont School and the Mountain Street School, in my quest to gather information on the first public schools for blacks in Asheville. But something puzzled me – where was the original location of the
Asheville School CommitteeBeaumont AcademyBeaumont SchoolBlack AshevilleBlack EducationBlack Elementary EducationBlack HistoryBlack SchoolsMountain Street School
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Wednesday, February 19, 2020 / Published in African Americans, Asheville History, Education, Local History, Photograph Collection

A Most Exceptional Man: Edward S. Stephens (Part One)

This post begins the two-part story of Edward Stephens and his work in Asheville and other cities.  Although Stephens wasn’t one of the original five black teachers when the Asheville public schools opened in January 1888, he came to the system two years later and made lasting contributions to the black community as a teacher,
African American SchoolsAsheviile School CommitteeBeaumont SchoolBlack Elementary EducationBlack SchoolsBlack TeachersCatholic Hill SchoolEdward S. StephensMountain Street SchoolMt. Zion Missionary Baptist ChurchSegregated SchoolsStephens-Lee High SchoolYMI
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Wednesday, January 08, 2020 / Published in African Americans, Asheville History, Education, Local History, Photograph Collection

Asheville’s First City Schools for Black Students, Part five: Builders of Black Schools (concluded)

This installment offers a look at the life and career of the fifth of the five original teachers at Asheville’s first black city school, Beaumont Street. We’ve saved one of the best teachers for last. We’ve also included information on the members of her family because of their prominence in Asheville and their connections to
African American EducationAmanda WalkerBeaumont SchoolBeaumont Street SchoolHester Walker Ford LeeJohn Wakefield WalkerSegregationWillie DodsonWillie Holt
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Thursday, December 19, 2019 / Published in African Americans, Forgotten People, Local Heroes and Heroines, Local History, Photograph Collection

ASHEVILLE’S FIRST CITY SCHOOLS FOR BLACK STUDENTS, Part Four: Builders of Black Schools (Continued)

In our last post in this series on early black public schools, we looked at the lives and careers of Harrison B. Brown and Daniel Cato Suggs, two of the original five teachers who opened Beaumont School on January 9, 1888. This new post profiles two more of these teachers, Edward H. Lipscombe and Mary
African American early educationBeaumont SchoolBlack Education in AshevilleE. A. LlipscombeMary DicksonMary Dickson Harris
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Monday, December 02, 2019 / Published in African Americans, Asheville History, Buncombe County History, Education, Forgotten People, Local Heroes and Heroines, Local History, Photograph Collection

ASHEVILLE’S FIRST CITY SCHOOLS FOR BLACK STUDENTS, Part Three: Builders of Black Schools

The Creation of a Public School System for the City of Asheville, 1887-1888 Setting Up the System and Hiring the Teachers Asheville Times, July 29, 1887: “Graded School Carried: Asheville Keeps to the Front By a Very Close Squeeze” “We need not multiply words to express pleasure at the result of the election yesterday on
African American HistoryAfrican AmericansAppalachiaAshevilleAsheville City School CommitteeAsheville City Schools for blacksBeaumont SchoolBlack AshevilleBuildersBuncombe County HistoryContractorsCraftsmenD. C. SuggsDaniel Cato SuggsE.H. LipscombeEast EndEducationH. B. Brownisaac DicksonMary DicksonPrimary EducationSecondary EducationSegregated Education in AshevilleSouthside
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Tuesday, October 15, 2019 / Published in African Americans, Asheville History, Local History, Photograph Collection

Asheville’s First City Schools for Black Students Part Two: African Americans Help Build the City and Its School System

Part One of this series began with a survey of private and religious efforts to educate Asheville’s black children in the decades following the Civil War.  Next we saw how the city established a public school system in 1888 after a close vote of public approval in which black voters provided the crucial margin of
African American Public EducationBeaumont School

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