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Speakers connect Rosenwald school and Shaw University ties to Garner education
Summary
Witnesses linked family lore to the Rosenwald school across the street and said James Allen Haywood had ties to Shaw University and may have helped start a local black school that later became Garner Consolidated.
Multiple speakers discussed the Rosenwald-funded school and its role educating Black children in Garner before consolidation. One speaker said family lore holds that James Allen Haywood taught at or attended Shaw University and helped found a local school that later aligns with what became Garner Consolidated.
Charles D. Walton described learning decades ago, with help from a neighbor, that his great-grandfather had a key role in starting a school; he called the discovery a point of pride and said that education shaped family trajectories. “I never knew that… it's a prideful kind of thing when you think about it,” Walton said.
