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COUNCILL TRAINING SCHOOL REUNION HYMN Tune:  “America the Beautiful” Lyrics:  Dorothy Langford Turner We come in gratitude today, with a hymn of love we raise Of memories which still abide, of school, our source of praise. You lifted us...

William Hooper Councill, educator and race leader, was born into slavery in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on July 12, 1849. His parents were both slaves on the Councill plantation. When William was five, his father escaped to Canada and tried...

According to Plato’s Republic, we know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of young and eager learners. This is the time that character is being formed and the desired impression...

In 1912, Julius Rosenwald, President of Sears Robuck and Company presented a check for $25,000 to Booker T. Washington to aid Negro Colleges based on the Tuskegee Institute model. In 1913, Washington persuaded Rosenwald to give the $2,100 left...