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M. Norma Snipes

M. Norma Snipes was an educator and civic leader in Orange County's Black community. During World War II she chaired the Citizens Service Corps that Chapel Hill's Black residents organized at the Orange County Training School. A former Jeans teacher, she was named supervisor of the county's schools for Black children in July 1949. When a new state rule ended the post in 1955, the board made her a primary teacher at Efland-Cheeks School.

Source: The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 21, 1943

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  1. The county board hires supervisors of instruction for its Black and white schools The board decided to hire supervisors of instruction and chose Norma Snipes for the Black schools and later Cora Paul Bomar for the white schools. In 1955 the state ended Snipes's position under a rule of one supervisor per hundred teachers, and she went to teach at Efland-Cheeks. People: Cora Paul Bomar, M. Norma SnipesSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 82
  2. Norma Snipes is appointed supervisor of the county schools for Black children In July 1949 the county named Norma Snipes, formerly a Jeans teacher who trained teachers, as supervisor of its schools for Black children. People: M. Norma SnipesDigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 160
  3. The county board ends the supervisor post for its Black schools under a new state staffing rule In 1955 the state began allotting a county one supervisor per hundred teachers. The schools Norma Snipes supervised had fewer teachers than that, so the board ended her post and made her a primary teacher at Efland-Cheeks School. People: M. Norma SnipesDigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 160

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