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Carter White

Carter White was an African American community leader from the Grover neighborhood of northern Orange County. In 1955 the county board named him to its committee to study the Supreme Court's school segregation ruling and to the Cedar Grove School advisory committee. With Oscar Beasley, Arthur Wells and others he asked the board in 1956 and 1959 for more classrooms, a lunchroom and playground land.

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

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  1. 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: Oscar Carver Beasley, Carter WhiteSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, May 5, 1955, p. 1
  2. The county board names a committee to study school segregation after Brown Answering a letter from the Governor's Advisory Commission on Education, chaired by Thomas Pearsall, the Orange County board appointed a local committee to study the problems the Supreme Court's segregation ruling raised for its schools. Ira Ward and Delmar Brown soon replaced two of the first members, Bonner D. Sawyer and W. T. (Buck) Murray. People: Ira Ward, Roosevelt Warner, Carter WhiteNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 21
  3. 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 WhiteNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 21
  4. 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 WhiteNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 22

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