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North Carolina School for the Blind and Deaf
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| 1844 State Literary Board given funds for the Education of deaf children and blind children. 1845 State Literary Board issued a contract to open a School for white deaf children in rented quarters in Raleigh. Seven students came on opening day. This was the ninth state operated school for deaf Children in the country. 1846 Legislature provided funds for building a state school in Raleigh, name: The North Carolina Institute for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind (NCIDDB). Provisions for white blind not made until 1851 with a start-up class of 12 blind students. 1869 Under the NCIDDB administrative umbrella a department for black deaf children and black blind children was started in rented quarters in a separate section of Raleigh. It was the first school of its kind in the country. 1873 Legislature provided funds for a new building for black deaf children and black blind children on South Bloodworth Street. 1891 Legislature provided funds for a school for white deaf children to be located in Morganton. These students were transferred to the new school in 1894. The name of the Morganton school: The North Carolina School for the Deaf and Dumb (NCSDD). The new school had its own seven member Board of Directors. 1894 White blind children remained in Raleigh on Ashe Avenue under the NCIDDB. Black deaf children and black blind children remained on South Bloodworth Street under the NCIDDB. *The Morganton school, The North Carolina |
1905 NCIDDB corporate name changed to: The North Carolina State School for the Blind and the Deaf. 1916* Legislative action changed the corporate name of The North Carolina School for the Deaf and Dumb to The North Carolina School for the Deaf, the name it still retains. 1929* Legislature appropriated funds for a new plant (school) for the black (blind children and deaf children) department on Garner Road. Corporate name: The North Carolina State School for the Blind and the Deaf 1963 Name change: The North Carolina State School for the Blind and the Deaf to The Governor Morehead School. (no reference was made in the new name as to the type of students served). Integration started: students accepted in all state schools for the deaf or the blind, regardless of race. 1965 The Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf open in Wilson to serve the eastern part of the state. 1970 Last graduating class for black deaf students and black blind students from the Garner Road campus. Black blind children transferred to integrated school for the blind on Ashe Avenue. 1970 – 1975 Due to shortage of space at the Eastern School, integrated deaf students continued to be served at The Governor Morehead School facilities until The Central North Carolina School for the Deaf in Greensboro opened in the fall of 1975. Postscript: The Garner Road campus facilities were leased to state agencies. The Governor Morehead School corporate name was transferred to the Ashe Street school which now serves blind students. |
Asterisked items are additions to the original list:
1894 and 1916 are from
www.ncsdmuseum.net
The paragraph under
1929 is believed to contain typo errors
in both the NCSD 100th Anniversary pamphlet and the
NCSD Museum's webpage. The words in
question are in Italics.
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03/23/2011.
