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May 1943 issue of North Carolina Education which describes the history of schools and universities in Guilford County from the Colonial Period to the World War II era. This article by Nellie Rowe Jones details the development of free schools, schools for White and African-American Students, bus transportation, private schools, and the first colleges. Includes pictures and text of the Edgeworth Female Seminary, the Percy Street School, Miss Lina Porter's School and several other no longer existing school buildings. There are also profiles of school superintendent like Thomas R. Foust, Ben L. Smith, and college presidents and founders like Dr. Walter Clinton Jackson of the Woman's College of North Carolina. Running alongside the articles are advertisements for several colleges and educational supply companies.
