In the lead-up to my February 8 talk at Wilson County Public Library, every day I’ll feature a post related to Wilson County’s Rosenwald schools. Here, extension agent Carter W. Foster invited farmers from the Rocky Branch, Williamson, and New Vester school districts in southwest Wilson County to attend a citizenship program.
Wilson Daily Times, 27 April 1950.
In an era in which few African-Americans qualified to register to vote, it is interesting to consider what “responsibilities and privileges as a good citizen” were being imparted.
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- C.W. Foster — Carter W. Foster.
- Helen T. Branford
Thanks for the post. As a current member of Rocky Branch United Church of Christ it’s away wonderful to read it history.
Always a pleasure to shine a light on Rocky Branch! From this historic church grew a cemetery, a Masonic lodge, a school, and so many community organizations!