Draft:Morris Street School

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-charleston-daily-news-the-morris-str/2927202/

Should there be an entry on Morris Street?

Charles H. Simonton School, Simonton School

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Morris Street School was a school for African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina established after the American Civil War. It was operated by the Freedman's Bureau and then Board of Public School Commissioners (BoPSC).

Renamed for Confederate officer, judge, and school commissioner? why???

As the 19th century progressed the city's schools for African Americans endured greater neglect, less funding, and worse discrimination. The school board was eventually reconstituted.

public school? first public school in Charleston for African Americans?

Closed after desegregation and demolished in 1970. Library of Congress source?

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2927298/the-colored-school-at-morris-street/

Its first year some 200 mostly Itish and German students were also educated at the school on a separate floor.

In 1910, F. W. Wamsley was its principal. 1911 city school budget documents. Principal and number of teachers. It was listed oj Morris and Jasper streets. In 1937, William Henry Grayson was principal.

Alumni

• Fredricka Rivers
• Edwin Augustus Harleston

See also

• Wood High School (Robert Carlos De Large)?
• Shaw Memorial School
• Charleston Colored Industrial School (eventually renamed Burke High School)
• Charles Henry Simonton