Thomas Inborden was the first director of the Bricks School near Enfield, North Carolina. The Brick School, an agricultural and trade school for African American youth, was founded in 1895 by the American Missionary Association near Enfield in Edgecombe County, N.C. It was first known as the Joseph Keasbey Brick Agricultural, Domestic, and Normal School and in 1926 became the Brick Junior College. The school closed in 1933.
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Interviews, photographs, and oral history project files chronicling African-American life in the American South with a particular focus on the era of legal segregation and its...
