Historic African American Schools in New Hanover, Brunswick and Pender Counties

Their families built schools that changed history in North Carolina and all across the South

Faculty of Pender County Training School in Rocky Point, NC c. 1950 Image: Courtesy of Alicia Ann Anderson

A shorter version of this article appeared in the February, 2017 issue of Cape Fear Living magazine

Sometimes people ask, what motivated me to start documenting African American school history? I was working…