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At Miss Hattie Moore's house behind St. Peter's Episcopal Church, the first North Carolina graded school opens. There is no tuition charge for the 175 students who are taught by eight teachers.
Most people come to call it the Jacob's Ladder School, nick-named for the outside stairways that criss-crossed the wooden building. Its official name is the Myers Street School, Charlotte's first graded school for black children.
Open Air School in Charlotte. (Public School Superintendent Harry P. Harding is in the background.)
Physical Description: 8x10 glossy4x5 negatives - two copies
Publisher: Unknown
Myers Street School
In the late 1940s, Myers Street School was the largest elementary school in North Carolina for black children. The school was torn down as part of urban renewal. The site is now part of Metro School and the Aquatic Center.
September 9, 1970 - Busing has begun. Children are assigned to schools in an attempt to achieve integration, which removes barriers that separate people by race. Still, thousands of parents resist the changes and complain loudly to the school board. The board will go to the U.S.
In the late 1940s, Myers Street School was the largest elementary school in North Carolina for black children. The school was torn down as part of urban renewal.
South Graded School was located at 1001-1015 South Boulevard on the the corner of Morehead Street. Built in 1858, the South Graded School was originally the North Carolina Military Institute.
Independence High School, located in Mint Hill, is home of the Patriots. The Mint Hill area was the home of several men known as the Mecklenburg signers.
Photograph of high school students. Unidentified.
Physical Description: 2 4x5 negatives
Publisher: Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
The Tonettes at Isabella Wyche School.
SECOND WARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
A North Carolina country school house near the Mulberry Presbyterian Church about 3/4 mile from Base Hospital, Camp Greene, N. C., 2/10/1918
The Daniel Harvey Hill School was located at the corner of South Boulevard and Morehead Street. It was once the home of the North Carolina Military Institute.
Physical Description: black and white glossy
Publisher: Unknown
Grange Hall School was located near Hood Cross Roads in southern Mecklenburg County. Teachers were Turner Honks and L. H. Yandle.
Physical Description: black and white glossy
Publisher: Unknown
Central High School was opened around 1908. Located on Elizabeth Avenue, the building is now part of the Central Piedmont Community College's campus.
Physical Description: 3 x 5 postcard
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The Baird School for Boys was run by Major J.G. Baird of South Carolina who purchased the wooden building once used by the Macon School for Boys, which closed in 1890.
This is the Myers Street School (1886) at 515 South Myers Street. At the turn-of-the-century, it was the only public school for black students.
Founded in 1900, First Ward Graded School was located on East 9th St., between Brevard and Caldwell Streets.
Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown
North Graded School opened in 1900. It was located at 600 North Brevard. There were eighteen classrooms in the school. Frank P. Milburn of Washington, D.C.
This collection of photographs shows student life in West Charlotte High School from its days as a segregated institution to the 1990s.