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Oscar Carver Beasley

Oscar Carver Beasley was an African American parent and community leader in the Sartin and Cedar Grove neighborhoods of northern Orange County. He sat on the Sartin school advisory committee in 1949 and on the building committee for the new Cedar Grove School in 1951. Over the next fifteen years he returned to the county school board with his neighbors to ask for classrooms, a lunchroom, playground land and repairs.

Source: NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register file OR3044

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StorylineCedar Grove School’s road to accreditation, 1956–19611956–1961 · 8 events · Cedar Grove School won state accreditation in 1961 after five years of requests to the county board for classrooms, land and a lunchroom. In 1956 Wayne Compton and four other men asked for four more classrooms, a larger lunchroom and playground land; the board did not act, though it later approved a cafeteria. In 1958 Ruth Lawrence Woodson, state supervisor of the Black elementary schools, refused accreditation because the school had too few classrooms and was using its library as a fourth-grade room. In 1959 the five men, now the school's advisory committee, asked for a two-classroom addition, which was finished by September 1960, and in 1961 the state added Cedar Grove Elementary to its accredited list.

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  1. Arthur Wells is listed for the advisory committee of the Sartin school The News of Orange County printed the county's new school committees, including the suggested advisory committee members for the Black schools. Oscar Beasley, Euddie Villines and Arthur Wells were listed for the Sartin school, on two-year terms. People: Arthur Wells, Oscar Carver Beasley Place: Cedar Grove · Also named: Oscar Beasley · Also mentions: The News of Orange CountySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 12, 1949, p. 1
  2. Cedar Grove parents ask for a say in hiring teachers and get a Black building committee Seven Cedar Grove PTA members asked for a local committee with power to hire and dismiss the new school's teachers, and for paint and tile floors. The board named a building committee of Dallas Sheppherd Burnett, Wayne Compton, D. W. Torain, Elijah Poole and Oscar Carver Beasley but gave it no say over staff; it did approve the paint and the floor tile. People: Oscar Carver Beasley Place: Cedar Grove School, 5800 NC 86 North, Cedar Grove · Also named: Dallas Sheppherd Burnett, Wayne Compton, D. W. Torain, Elijah PooleNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 19
  3. Arthur Wells is named to the Cedar Grove school advisory committee The Orange County Board of Education named Wayne Compton, Oscar Beasley, Carter White, Lonnie Thompson and Arthur Wells to two-year terms as the advisory committee of the Cedar Grove school. People: Arthur Wells, Oscar Carver Beasley, Carter White Place: Cedar Grove · Also named: Wayne Compton, Oscar Beasley, Lonnie ThompsonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 5, 1955, p. 1
  4. A Cedar Grove committee asks for classrooms, a lunchroom and playground land Wayne Compton, Arthur Wells, Lonnie Thompson, Carter White and Oscar Beasley asked the county board for four more classrooms at Cedar Grove School, a lunchroom large enough to grow, and two more acres for a playground. The board did not act. People: Arthur Wells, Oscar Carver Beasley, Carter White Place: Cedar Grove School, 5800 NC 86 North, Cedar Grove · Also named: Wayne Compton, Lonnie Thompson, Oscar BeasleyNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 21
  5. Cedar Grove's advisory committee asks for two more classrooms Lonnie Thompson, Arthur Wells, Carter White, Wayne Compton and Oscar Beasley of the school's advisory committee asked the board for a two-classroom addition. The board agreed to consider it and in August approved Archie Royal Davis's plans with a $20,000 limit. People: Archie Royal Davis, Arthur Wells, Oscar Carver Beasley, Carter White Place: Cedar Grove School, 5800 NC 86 North, Cedar Grove · Also named: Lonnie Thompson, Wayne Compton, Oscar BeasleyNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 22
  6. Cedar Grove's advisory council asks for a painted lunchroom and a paved playground Oscar Beasley and Arthur Wells of the Cedar Grove Advisory Council asked the board to paint the lunchroom, hang doors on the girls' restroom and give the school a hard-surfaced playground. The board granted part of the request. People: Arthur Wells, Oscar Carver Beasley Place: Cedar Grove School, 5800 NC 86 North, Cedar Grove · Also named: Oscar BeasleyNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 23

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