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- Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899
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Robert G. Fitzgerald comes to Hillsborough to teach a freedmen's school
Fitzgerald, a Union Navy and cavalry veteran who had taught freedpeople in Amelia County, Virginia, came to Hillsborough through the Friends' Freedmen's Association of Philadelphia to teach at a new school for Black students. The Freedmen's Bureau's monthly school reports name Misses Harris and Allen as the Hillsborough teachers from February to August 1868 and first list Fitzgerald there in September; by December he and Hester Anderson taught the town's Howard school.
Part of The Freedmen’s Bureau office at Hillsborough, 1866–1868 · 84 events
- Civil rights era · 1945–1975
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Orange High School begins desegregation
Tonya and Narviar Cathcart entered Orange High School after their family’s transfer petition was approved.
Part of School desegregation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, 1959–1967 · 24 events
Subject: Orange High School
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