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BENJAMIN L. SMITH
Benjamin L. Smith is a native of Caldwell County, North
Carolina, He is the son of Waightstill Monroe and Isabelle Courtney
Smith (both deceased.) He is the nephew of the late Reverend Robert
Marshall Courtney. His wife, Pearl, is the daughter of the late
Reverend Robert Sidney Abernethy. He has two children: Benjamin Lee
Smith, Jr., and Mary Blair Smith.
His education was received in the public schools, Rutherford
College, Trinity College, and Duke University.
Except for the duration of World War I, his professional
career has been devoted to public education. For the past twenty years
he has been the Superintendent of the Greensboro City Schools. He is a
member and has been elected to positions of leadership in many scholarship
and professional organizations and fraternities, He has served the
National Council of Christians and Jews, the North Carolina Council of
Churches, and in an advisory capacity a number of educational institutions,
including; Rutherford College, Brevard College, Duke University, Palmer
Memorial Institute, Guilford College, Greensboro College, High Point
College, Appalachian State Teachers College, and the University of North
Carolina. He has served as Chairman of a Discussion Group of the American
Association of School Administrators on "Moral and Spiritual Values in
the Public Schools."
Through the years Ben Smith has been an active member of the
Methodist Church. He has been Sunday School teacher, Superintendent of
Sunday School, Steward, member of the Western North Carolina Conference
Board of Missions and Church Extension, and has served in other positions
of leadership. He has spoken often throughout western and central North
Carolina on Layman's Day, on Race Relations Day, and on other special
occasions, His life is dedicated to the unification of education and
religion.
A number of biographical collections have included his name:
Who's Who in Methodism, Who's Who in Education, Leaders in Education,
and Who's Who in the South and Southwest,
Object Description
| Title | [Biographical information on Benjamin L. Smith] |
| Date | 1955 |
| Date approximate? | yes |
| Creator | Smith, Benjamin Lee |
| Biographical/historical note | Benjamin Lee Smith was born February 6, 1893 in, Caldwell County, N.C. He received his A.B. from Duke University in 1916, and his M.A. from Duke in 1937. He served as superintendent of schools in the western North Carolina cities of Forest City, Rutherford-Spindale, and Shelby before assuming the same position in Greensboro, N.C., in 1935. His twenty-three year tenure in Greensboro included the years immediately following the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision ordering desegregation of public schools. In 1959, he participated in the National Civil Rights hearing on school integration. Smith died in 1961. Ben L. Smith High School in Greensboro is named for him. |
| Subject headings | Segregation in education--United States;Race relations |
| Topics | School desegregation, 1954-1958 |
| Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
| Description | This four-page document provides biographical information about Benjamin L. Smith, including a brief biographical sketch and lists of his organizations, accomplishments, and interests. Smith had served as the superintendent of Greensboro city schools for twenty years at the time this document was written, shortly after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision. |
| Type | text |
| Original format | reports |
| Original dimensions | 8.5" x 11" |
| Original publisher | [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] |
| Language | en |
| Contributing institution | Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University |
| Source collection | RL.01210 Benjamin Lee Smith Papers |
| Finding aid link | http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/smithbenjaminlee/ |
| Rights statement | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/ |
| Additional rights information | COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED. The copyright status of this item has not been fully evaluated and may vary for different parts of the item. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material. |
| Object ID | Duke_RL.01210.0961 |
| Digital publisher | The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/ |
| Sponsor | LSTA grant administered by the North Carolina State Library -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/grants/lsta.html |
| OCLC number | 884367483 |
Page/Item Description
| Title | 4.1.961-01 |
| Full text | BENJAMIN L. SMITH Benjamin L. Smith is a native of Caldwell County, North Carolina, He is the son of Waightstill Monroe and Isabelle Courtney Smith (both deceased.) He is the nephew of the late Reverend Robert Marshall Courtney. His wife, Pearl, is the daughter of the late Reverend Robert Sidney Abernethy. He has two children: Benjamin Lee Smith, Jr., and Mary Blair Smith. His education was received in the public schools, Rutherford College, Trinity College, and Duke University. Except for the duration of World War I, his professional career has been devoted to public education. For the past twenty years he has been the Superintendent of the Greensboro City Schools. He is a member and has been elected to positions of leadership in many scholarship and professional organizations and fraternities, He has served the National Council of Christians and Jews, the North Carolina Council of Churches, and in an advisory capacity a number of educational institutions, including; Rutherford College, Brevard College, Duke University, Palmer Memorial Institute, Guilford College, Greensboro College, High Point College, Appalachian State Teachers College, and the University of North Carolina. He has served as Chairman of a Discussion Group of the American Association of School Administrators on "Moral and Spiritual Values in the Public Schools." Through the years Ben Smith has been an active member of the Methodist Church. He has been Sunday School teacher, Superintendent of Sunday School, Steward, member of the Western North Carolina Conference Board of Missions and Church Extension, and has served in other positions of leadership. He has spoken often throughout western and central North Carolina on Layman's Day, on Race Relations Day, and on other special occasions, His life is dedicated to the unification of education and religion. A number of biographical collections have included his name: Who's Who in Methodism, Who's Who in Education, Leaders in Education, and Who's Who in the South and Southwest, |
