COLORED PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN CAROLINE
In the organization and support of school improvement
leagues and in the fostering of education among their people,
the colored citizens of Caroline challenge comparison with any
section of Virginia. For the past twelve years there has been
a supervisor for colored schools and much progress has been made
during this period, especially in the school buildings and grounds.
Practically all of the thirteen two-room schools and the twenty-two
one-room schools in Caroline have been remodeled so as to
conform to the State requirements. The work in this connection
and the cost attached thereto has been cared for in most cases
by the patrons of the schools. In some instances aid has been
received from the Julius Rosenwald Fund, but in all cases the
patrons, under the leadership of the pastor of the neighborhood
church, or the supervisor of colored school, have cheerfully contributed
to the limit of their ability. Education and religion
are the chief interests of the colored people of Caroline. In 1915
the colored school leagues of the county contributed eight thousand
dollars to school work within the county. There are now in the
county one high school, one three-room school, thirteen two-room
schools, and twenty-two one-room schools.
