Beacons of Light: The Education of the Afro-Texan

 

Governor Roberts was a zealous friend to public education. In 1880 the governor and the State Board of Education established summer normal institutes at various cities in the state; these normals were supported by the state and the Peabody fund

 

Conductors of Summer Normal Institute

Excerpts Summer Normal Institute

 


 

Laurine Cecil (L. C.) Anderso

David Abner, Jr

E. H. Anderson

Edward Lavoisier Blackshear 

W C Brooks

S H Dean

W S Gordon

Wm Goss

R H Harbert

C W Luckie

F H Mabson

J H McCarver

A. J. Moore 

W T Phillips

A H Robinson

SH Smothers

J R Stokes

I M Terrell

Champion J. Waring

F J Webb

 


 

1883
Summer Normal Institutes, opened on the second day of August, 1883, and conducted for a term of four weeks.

1884
Summer Normal Institutes, opened on the seventh day of August, 1884, and conducted for a term of four weeks.

1885
Certificates Granted, and Enrollment of the State Summer Normal Institutes, 1885.

1886
State Summer Normal Institutes

 

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