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Teaching School In A Stable And A Hen-House
Washington's month touring the county leaves him discouraged by what he finds, but he opens the school anyway in a shanty near a church, and it soon outgrows its space enough to hold classes in a former stable and henhouse — helped from this point by new co-teacher Olivia A. Davidson.
Survey of local Black community conditionsOpening day in a borrowed church shantyClasses held in a stable and henhouseOlivia A. Davidson joins as co-teacherA donor's gift of six eggs ‘into the eddication of dese boys an' gals’