CASWELL COUNTY TRAINING SCHOOL, 1933-1969 - RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN COMMUNITY AND SCHOOL

The history of education has many references that depict the inequitie s African-American children experienced during the pre-integration era , but few studies that describe the positive interactions in segregate d school environments. In this article, Emilie Vanessa Siddle Walker d iscusses the case of Caswell County Training School of North Carolina. In this study, ethnographically approached, the author explores the r elationships between school and community as they existed in a segrega ted Black school in the South that was defined by its community as a ' 'good'' school. Specifically, Siddle Walker considers: 1) the ways in which the community supported the school; 2) the ways in which the sch ool supported the community; and 3) the implications of these relation ships both in their historical context and in informing the current sc hool reform debates.