Seventy-five years ago today, the Daily Times reported Darden High School graduates were attending college at Howard University, N.C. College [North Carolina Central University], A&T College [North Carolina State A&T University], Shaw University, Johnson C. Smith University, Barber-Scotia College, Virginia State University, West Virginia State University, Saint Augustine’s College [now University], Temple University, Cortez Peters Business School, and Winston-Salem Teachers College [now Winston-Salem State University.]

Wilson Daily Times, 15 September 1948.