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| Named Person: | Charles B Aycock; Charles L Coon; Claude Kitchin; Alexander Jeffrey McKelway; Clarence Hamilton Poe; Booker T Washington |
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| Document Type: | Archival Material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles L Coon |
| OCLC Number: | 23045583 |
| Notes: | In the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (#177). |
| Description: | ca. 4300 items (6.5 linear feet) |
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Abstract:
Correspondence and writings include material related to Coon's work as an educator and education reformer, including his efforts to improve education for African Americans, especially regarding funding and teacher training. Topics in education include curricula; the establishment of a school for the mentally handicapped; adoption of textbooks; teacher training, certification, and evaluation; farm life schools; legislation for mandatory school terms; professional ethics; school athletics; school financing; and Coon's work for the Bureau of Information of the Southern Education Board, the North Carolina Teachers Assembly, North Carolina African American normal schools, and the schools of Salisbury, N.C., and Wilson County, N.C. Also included are materials about child labor reform; social services; Coon's work with the North Carolina Child Labor Committee and the Wilson Welfare League; pacifism and peace movements; juvenile crime, especially as it relates to illiteracy; and the establishment of a tuberculosis hospital for African Americans. Prominent correspondents include Booker T. Washington, Charles Brantley Aycock, Clarence Poe, A.J. McKelway, and Claude Kitchin. Educational materials include collected articles on education; notes on the history of education; and subject files on various topics in education, information about North Carolina schools and teachers, and teaching and testing materials. In addition, there are documents pertaining to Coon's historical research, especially the educational history of North Carolina; materials regarding residents of Mecklenburg County, N.C., 1775-1874; and clipping files, chiefly related to education.
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- African American schools -- North Carolina.
- African American teachers -- North Carolina.
- African Americans -- Education -- North Carolina.
- African Americans -- Medical care -- North Carolina.
- Aycock, Charles B. -- (Charles Brantley), -- 1859-1912.
- Child labor -- Law and legislation -- North Carolina.
- Coon, Charles L. -- (Charles Lee), -- 1868-1927.
- Education, Rural -- North Carolina.
- Education -- Curricula -- North Carolina.
- Education -- North Carolina -- Finance.
- Education -- North Carolina -- History.
- Juvenile delinquency -- North Carolina.
- Kitchin, Claude, -- 1869-1923.
- McKelway, Alexander Jeffrey, -- 1866-1918.
- Mecklenburg County (N.C.) -- History.
- North Carolina Teachers' Assembly.
- Pacifism -- History.
- Peace movements -- North Carolina.
- People with mental disabilities -- Education -- North Carolina.
- Poe, Clarence Hamilton, -- 1881-1964.
- Salifbury (N.C.) -- History.
- Salisbury (N.C.) -- Social conditions.
- School administrators -- North Carolina.
- School management and organization -- North Carolina.
- School superintendents -- North Carolina.
- Schools -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
- Schools -- North Carolina -- Salisbury.
- Schools -- North Carolina -- Wilson.
- Schools -- North Carolina -- Wilson County.
- Social service -- North Carolina.
- Southern Education Board.
- Teachers colleges -- North Carolina.
- Teachers -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
- Teachers -- Training of -- North Carolina.
- Textbooks -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
- Tuberculosis -- Hospitals -- North Carolina.
- Washington, Booker T., -- 1856-1915.
- Wilson (N.C.) -- History.
- Wilson (N.C.) -- Social conditions.
- Wilson County (N.C.) -- History.
- Wilson County (N.C.) -- Social conditions.
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