After several years of digitizing the Division of Negro Education records from the Department of Public Instruction record group, the African American Education digitization project is now completely online!

This digital collection covers the day by day interactions of the Division of Negro Education with the African American community. The collection ranges from the early to mid 20th century and includes correspondence, articles, speeches, reports, newspaper clippings and more. You can read about previous additions to this collection in Part One, Part Two, and Part Three of this blog series. The last addition to the collection is the Director’s Office: Newspaper Clippings series. It contains newspaper clippings largely covering racial segregation in education throughout the Southern United States during the 1950’s.

The following series are now online:

• • General Correspondence of the Director series
  • High School Principal Annual Reports series
  • Files of the State Supervisor of Elementary Education
  • Division of Cooperation in Education and Race Relations: Correspondence of the Director, Reports, and Minutes
  • Special Subject Files
  • Articles and Speeches by Nathan Carter Newbold
  • Correspondence of the Supervisor, Rosenwald Fund
  • Director’s Office: Newspaper Clippings

For more information on African American education, check out these NCpedia pages: