Deterioration of Black Schools

ID: 2323 ~ Source: Gilbert, Robert, interviewed by Rufus Spain, October 12, 1971, in Waco, Texas, Baylor Institute for Oral History. View Full Interview (Interview 4).
This file appears in: A. J. Moore High School

In the 1970s Robert Gilbert spoke about the continued problem of deterioration in black schools, both physically and in terms of education.

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…