SR_DPI_DNE_Special_Subject_File_B1F2_Aid_to_Negro_Education_NC_Outside_Agencies_006

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^(4 [illegible] ( ) County Training Schools, the beginning of rural public high schools
for Negroes, owe both their beginning and success, largely, to liberal dona-
tions from the General Education Board. Contributions have been made to them
for the purchase of equipment, the erection of shops and dormitories, and the
payment of teachers' salaries. Representatives of the Board have given counsel
in the organization of these schools. In accordance with its policy the Board
has ceased to aid on teachers' salaries. ^( ) )

In addition to the general appropriations made to County Training
Schools, special donations have been made to pay part of the salary of teachers
teaching in organized teach-training units.

Summer Schools, which have done so much to improve the colored
teachers of the State, have been generously aided by the Board. In addition
to the funds allocated to institutions maintaining summer schools, a part of
the traveling expenses of teachers attending summer schools at Hampton Institute,
Tuskegee Institute, and Winston-Salem Teachers College has been paid.

The Board no longer makes appropriations to the Home Makers Clubs,
but the community improvement stimulated by the funds given for this work is
still carried on by publicly supported agencies.

Many provate schools have been very materially aided both in capital
outlay and current expenses by funds received from the Board. These contribu-
tions enabled the private Negro colleges to offer high school and college educa-
tion to Negroes when there were no public secondary or higher educational insti-
tutions for them. Some of the outstanding teachers of the state were trained in
these schools under instructors paid in part by [crossed out word] General Education Board money.