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- Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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A. L. Stanback succeeds E. C. Hester as principal of Hillsborough's high school for Black students
Albert Leon Stanback, a teacher at the Hillsboro High School for Negroes, replaced its first principal, E. C. Hester, in 1942. The school took the name Central High School the next year, and Stanback later pushed for the Cedar Grove consolidated school to take the lower grades.
People: A. L. Stanback
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The Hillsborough High School for Negroes takes the name Central High School
Under principal A. L. Stanback, the school for Black students in Hillsborough changed its name to Central High School in 1943.
People: A. L. Stanback
- Civil rights era · 1945–1975
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Black rural school districts more than double their Red Cross gifts
A Red Cross drive among the county's rural Black residents, run through the rural schools by A. L. Stanback and county agent M. C. Burt, closed with $472.55 from 428 people, against $224 the year before. Ridge Road district, with Mrs. A. A. Burt as principal, gave $36.32.
People: A. L. Stanback · Joe Bethel Brooks
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Central High School adds a twelfth grade
Central High School, the county's high school for Black students in Hillsborough, added a twelfth grade for the 1946-47 school year. By 1949-50 it served 443 elementary and 206 high school students.
People: A. L. Stanback
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Cedar Grove parents ask that Black educators help plan their new school
A delegation from the Cedar Grove Parent-Teacher Association asked the county board to let Central High principal A. L. Stanback and M. C. Burt, the county's agricultural agent for Black farmers, take part in planning the new Cedar Grove school.
People: A. L. Stanback
Subject: Cedar Grove schools
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Black residents opened a fund drive to build the Orange County Negro Public Library a building of its own
The library then held 2,254 books in a single room with shelves full and volumes stacked on the floor, and had circulated 2,015 books in the year. A committee including Mrs. Marinda D. McPherson, A. L. Stanback and Mrs. M. C. Burt asked for donations, naming $100 for outside sheeting and $70 for a roof.
People: Marinda D. McPherson · A. L. Stanback
Subject: Orange County Public Library
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Central High principal A. L. Stanback dies
Albert Leon Stanback, who came to Central as a coach and mathematics teacher and led it for more than twenty years, died after a short illness. His funeral was held in the school's auditorium. Under him the school grew to about 1,200 students.
People: A. L. Stanback
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Central High School becomes A. L. Stanback School
After Central High's last high school class graduated in 1968 and its older students moved to Orange High School, the school was renamed for its longtime principal A. L. Stanback and became an elementary school.
People: A. L. Stanback
- Recent decades · 1976–2026
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A new A. L. Stanback Middle School opens south of Hillsborough
Orange County opened a new A. L. Stanback Middle School just south of town, carrying the name of the old Central High principal to a new building.
People: A. L. Stanback
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