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The Allen School, which employed mostly white female teachers who were missionaries, emphasized “Christian ideals.” According to Jamie
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reports that more than one hundred students had enrolled, and by the end of the first school year, over two hundred students had started to attend classes. Just one year after being founded, in 1888, a high school curriculum was added. By 1892 the Allen School became a boarding school primarily for
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Western North Carolina were desegregating. As a result, the Allen School had difficulty surviving financially. According to then principal, Ruth Walter, “We just couldn’t charge the tuition we needed to keep the school
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tasks, such as cooking and sewing. While the value of an industrial education for Black students was certainly debated, notably between
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