Black African American Cabinet Card Photo Teacher John L Gaddie Taylor County KY
This is a rare Histantique original photograph featuring a Black African American colored cabinet card. Educational Association Teacher John Henry Gaddie. The 6 x 8 inch photo captures a famous teacher in the United States, reflecting the culture and history of Black Americana.
Gaddie refers to John Henry Gaddie Sr. In the 1910s, the couple were recognized as educators, famously listed as teachers in the proceedings of the Kentucky Neg. Photograph taken in Louisville, Kentucky. John Henry Gaddie and Fannie B. Gaddie are both buried in the Pleasant Union Baptist Cemetery in Campbellsville, Taylor County, Kentucky.
This unique piece of collectible is an original print, showcasing the rich heritage of Black American communities during that era. Source Credit Reference: NKAA- Notable Kentucky African Americans. African American Schools in Taylor. As early as 1880 there was a colored school, the Campbellsville school, in Taylor County, KY; the teacher was Robert Hubbard source: U. Colored chools were still in use during the 1886-87 school term source: Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1888 p.
130 In 1895, ten colored schools existed in Taylor County source: Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1895-97, pp. Average attendance was 281 students during the 1895-96 school year and 252 students during the 1896-97 school year.
In 1916, the following school teachers were listed in the Proceedings of the Kentucky Neg. Educational Association, April 25-28, 1916: Fannie B. 29; Ethel Von Lewis, Campbellsville p. Nuckolls [or Nuchols], Campbellsville p. 33; and Maxwell Philpott, Campbellsville p. Philpott taught the Colored Moonlight School in Campbellsville beginning in 1915 with students between the ages of 18 and 55 source: Mrs.Dowery, conducted night school for colored soldiers at Camp Zachary Taylor during World War I. In 1937, seven one-room, colored elementary schools were active in Taylor County, KY, according to the master's thesis of John Albert Jones, History_ of Education in Taylor County, p. One of the schools was in Campbellsville, replaced in 1939 by the newly-constructed Durham School for grades 1-12; the school received funding from the Rosenwald Fund to house the second high school for African Americans in Taylor County source: Images of America. Campbellsville, by DeSpain, Burch, and Hooper, pp. The earlier high school, Taylor County Industrial High School for neg..
Existed in 1922 when teacher C. Nuchols [or Nuckolls] left the school for a teaching job with Booker T.
Washington School in Ashland, KY [see NKAA entry African American Schools in Boyd County, KY]. The Taylor County Industrial High School had been established between 1911 and 1919, funded by the John F. Slater Fund source: A History_of Education in Kentucky, by W.Margaret Ray was the teacher at the that school in 1925. Her term of service was nine months.
Haynes was the principal of the Taylor County Training School in Campbellsville source. The training school was a Class 3, two-year high school with one to three teachers and six students. In 1940, the black teachers in Taylor County were Flora Bell, Ethel Lewis, Rodney K.
Miller, Helen Miller, Margaret Ryan, and Melvin Strong source: U. In 1955, Our Lady of Perpetual Help was the first school to be listed as having "white & colored" students on p. 229 in the Kentucky Public School Directory, 1955-56.
Student at the school was Wallace Williams, who would become an Olympic marathon runner. The following year, Our Lady of Perpetual Help became the first school in Taylor County to be listed as integrated source. Kentucky Public School Directory, 1956-57, p.Basketball player Clem Haskins transferred from. Durham High School to Taylor County High School in 1961, the year Taylor High School was listed as integrated in the Kentucky School Directory, 1961-62.
See also the unpublished manuscript, Public Education in Taylor County con. 4, section Colored in the Kentucky_Education Collection, Series 1, Box 25, 0000UA129, File: Taylor County Education, at the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.Taylor County Industrial High School for. Camp Zachary Taylor Colored Night School.