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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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Friday, March 13, 2020 / Published in African Americans, Education, Local History

A Most Exceptional Man: The Conclusion of the Edward S. Stephens Story

The first two posts in this series traced Edward Stephens’s career from St. Louis to Asheville to Topeka.  We saw him succeed as well as fail as he tried to lift up his race with his work in schools and black YMCAs.  This new post brings the story to a conclusion by looking at how
African American HistoryAfrican American SchoolsAfrican AmericansBlack EducationBlack SchoolsBlack TeachersBooker T. WashingtonBridgeport ConnecticutEdward S. StephensIzie Reddick StephensKansas Technical InstituteSegregationStephens-Lee Alumni AssociationStephens-Lee High SchoolTopekaTopeka Industrial Institute
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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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