African American Schools, High Schools - Eastern Kentucky, 1948
In 1948, William T. Gilbert completed his thesis, The Administration and Organization of Secondary Schools for Negro Pupils in Eastern Kentucky, for a Master of Arts degree at Indiana University. A Kentucky school law mandated that all school districts provide 12 grades of segregated school for both races. For many of the eastern counties with few colored students (who lived in scattered locations throughout the county), the law presented a challenge. There were 16 approved Negro high schools in eastern Kentucky from 1918-1940, and two of the schools had been dropped: enrollment was too small at Manchester, and the Vicco school was consolidated with the Hazard school system. The high school classes ranged in size from six students in Pineville to 288 students in Lynch. There were 46 high school teachers, all college graduates. Below is a list of the high school names from p. 25 of Gilbert's thesis, and below that, from p. 90, a list of the institutions from which the high school teachers graduated.
Eastern Kentucky Negro High Schools:
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Middlesboro |
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Pineville |
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Ashland |
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Wheelwright |
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Benham |
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Harlan |
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Lynch |
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Barbourville |
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London |
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Jenkins |
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Maysville |
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Hazard |
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Pikeville |
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Somerset |
Eastern Kentucky Negro High Schools: Institutions from which the High School Teachers Graduated:
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25 |
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4 |
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3 |
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3 |
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2 |
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2 |
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1 |
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1 |
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1 |
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1 |
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1 |
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1 |
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1 |