Sarah Stevenson Tuesday Forum | Charlotte

  • Home
  • Invited Speakers
  • Announcements
    • Current Announcements
    • Announcement Archives
  • Archive
    • By Date
    • By Name
    • By Subject
    • View All Articles
  • About Us
    • Who We Are
    • Commentary
    • Where Forum has met
    • Participant Directory
  • Contact
  • Facebook
  • YouTube

The Long Struggle for Equity in Education in North Carolina

February 25, 2014 Education & Health

140225HIstoryHeader
Clockwise from window: Rural Hill one-room schoolhouse, circa 1890; Alexander Street School; McClintock Rosenwald; York Road High; group at Second Ward High. All the schools were built in the era of segregation. Rural Hill served whites; the rest of the schools served blacks until desegregation.

For Black History Month, Forum participants suggested a session on some of the history of K-12 education in Mecklenburg County. Speakers were Arthur Griffin, longtime education advocate and former chair of the CMS Board of Education; Richard McElrath, former District 2 member of the board; and Sarah Stevenson, an at-large member of the board from 1980-1988.

Griffin gave his portion of the presentation the title used above. He passed out an excerpt from the Journal of the 1868 N.C. Constitutional Convention detailing the convention’s adoption of the report of the Committee on Education creating public schools, but only after approving an amendment requiring the General Assembly to “provide seperate and distinct schools, for the black children of the State, from those provided for white children” and then rejecting an amendment that the separate schools be equal in quality.

The speakers’ introductory comments were followed by a Q&A.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Q&A Part 1

Q&A Part 2

Next Education & Health Article
Nursing Amid Racism
Previous Education & Health Article
StudentFirst Academy: An update

Join Us

After two COVID-19 years, in-person meetings have resumed at Belmont Center. Join us or watch the livestream. Details here.

On Facebook, YouTube

Join us on Facebook and YouTube, where Forum meetings first appear as livestreams and then later as edited, archived video.

Our weekly e-mails

Click here to sign up for 2 e-mails per week: Sunday night with speaker's name; and after meeting, Announcements.

Return to Top | Sarah Stevenson photo credit: Jones Photography | Site design by Five J's Design