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An organization named in the People's Journal in 1927 as the sponsor of a county-wide Fall Meet at Boyce, organized with one named representative for each of seven communities.
An organisation named in the People's Journal in 1927 as the sponsor of a county-wide Fall Meet at Boyce, with one named representative for each of seven Clarke County communities. The League is the same civic body the Clarke Courier had already named in 1925 as raising money for a County Training School.
The People's Journal announced a Clarke County Fall Meet at Boyce for 16 September 1927 — a basket picnic with field sports and a baseball contest, held under the auspices of the Clarke County School League1. A county-wide Black civic event with a named venue, a named date, and a named sponsor.
The People's Journal's August 1927 issue printed the League's committee: a named representative for each of seven Clarke County communities — Berryville, Boyce, Louisville, Millwood, and three others named in the same column1. A single committee list that establishes the League as a genuinely county-wide body with a working delegation structure, not a Berryville-only organisation with an ambitious name.
Two claims establish the League's operating shape: a county-wide event under its auspices, and a committee with delegates from seven named communities. The Clarke Courier narrative already carries what the same League was doing on the Training School campaign in 1925. What is missing from the corpus so far: the League's own minutes, the outcomes of the Fall Meet, the identities of every named committee member (some are in the passage; making each into an entity is a promotion task), and the League's founding and closing dates.
The People's Journal announced a Clarke County Fall Meet at Boyce for 16 September 1927, a basket picnic with field sports and a baseball contest, held under the auspices of a body it names the Clarke County School League.
That an organisation calling itself the Clarke County School League existed in 1927, that it organised a county-wide gathering, and that it charged admission of 25 and 15 cents.
This is an announcement printed six weeks before the date. It does not establish that the meet took place, and no event record has been created for it for that reason. The League's founding, membership, constitution and relationship to the county school authorities are not established.
Evidence role: supports. The announcement, naming the League, the date, the place and the admission.
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1927-08-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 2, announcement and committee list
Relevant passageCLARKE COUNTY FALL MEET AT BOYCE, VA. FRIDAY, SEP. 16, 1927. In Mr. R. P. Page's Woods. This Basket Picnic is under the auspices of the Clarke County School League; and the League will spare no pains to make this one of most enjoyable functions of Vacation Season. Contests and Field Sports, Baseball Contest a Specialty. COMMITTEE: Rev. E. T. Johnson, President, Mr. Jacob Jackson, Berryville, Miss Hannah Randolph, Boyce, Mr. Geo. Edwards, Louisville, Mr. DeRoy Layton, Millwood, Mr. Jno. Togging [Toggins], Stone Bridge, Mr. Geo. Carter, Webbtown, Mr. Edward Crittenden, White Post, Mrs. Alma B. Layton, Sec'ty.
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AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-08. How this project checks its sources
The Clarke County School League committee printed in August 1927 lists a named representative for each of seven Clarke County communities: Berryville, Boyce, Louisville, Millwood, Stone Bridge, Webbtown and White Post.
That the League organised itself by community with one named person for each, and that Stone Bridge and Webbtown were treated as Clarke County communities with their own representatives.
A committee list. It does not establish that these were the only communities involved, nor anything about the size, boundaries or location of any of them. No coordinates are claimed for Stone Bridge or Webbtown, and neither has been located on any map.
Evidence role: supports. The committee list within the same announcement, community by community.
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1927-08-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 2, announcement and committee list
Relevant passageCLARKE COUNTY FALL MEET AT BOYCE, VA. FRIDAY, SEP. 16, 1927. In Mr. R. P. Page's Woods. This Basket Picnic is under the auspices of the Clarke County School League; and the League will spare no pains to make this one of most enjoyable functions of Vacation Season. Contests and Field Sports, Baseball Contest a Specialty. COMMITTEE: Rev. E. T. Johnson, President, Mr. Jacob Jackson, Berryville, Miss Hannah Randolph, Boyce, Mr. Geo. Edwards, Louisville, Mr. DeRoy Layton, Millwood, Mr. Jno. Togging [Toggins], Stone Bridge, Mr. Geo. Carter, Webbtown, Mr. Edward Crittenden, White Post, Mrs. Alma B. Layton, Sec'ty.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: peoples-journal. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-08. How this project checks its sources
The People's Journal announced a Clarke County Fall Meet at Boyce for 16 September 1927, a basket picnic with field sports and a baseball contest, held under the auspices of a body it names the Clarke County School League.
The People's Journal announced a Clarke County Fall Meet at Boyce for 16 September 1927, a basket picnic with field sports and a baseball contest, held under the auspices of a body it names the Clarke County School League.
That an organisation calling itself the Clarke County School League existed in 1927, that it organised a county-wide gathering, and that it charged admission of 25 and 15 cents.
This is an announcement printed six weeks before the date. It does not establish that the meet took place, and no event record has been created for it for that reason. The League's founding, membership, constitution and relationship to the county school authorities are not established.
Evidence role: supports. The announcement, naming the League, the date, the place and the admission.
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1927-08-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 2, announcement and committee list
Relevant passageCLARKE COUNTY FALL MEET AT BOYCE, VA. FRIDAY, SEP. 16, 1927. In Mr. R. P. Page's Woods. This Basket Picnic is under the auspices of the Clarke County School League; and the League will spare no pains to make this one of most enjoyable functions of Vacation Season. Contests and Field Sports, Baseball Contest a Specialty. COMMITTEE: Rev. E. T. Johnson, President, Mr. Jacob Jackson, Berryville, Miss Hannah Randolph, Boyce, Mr. Geo. Edwards, Louisville, Mr. DeRoy Layton, Millwood, Mr. Jno. Togging [Toggins], Stone Bridge, Mr. Geo. Carter, Webbtown, Mr. Edward Crittenden, White Post, Mrs. Alma B. Layton, Sec'ty.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: peoples-journal. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-08. How this project checks its sources
The Clarke County School League committee printed in August 1927 lists a named representative for each of seven Clarke County communities: Berryville, Boyce, Louisville, Millwood, Stone Bridge, Webbtown and White Post.
The Clarke County School League committee printed in August 1927 lists a named representative for each of seven Clarke County communities: Berryville, Boyce, Louisville, Millwood, Stone Bridge, Webbtown and White Post.
That the League organised itself by community with one named person for each, and that Stone Bridge and Webbtown were treated as Clarke County communities with their own representatives.
A committee list. It does not establish that these were the only communities involved, nor anything about the size, boundaries or location of any of them. No coordinates are claimed for Stone Bridge or Webbtown, and neither has been located on any map.
Evidence role: supports. The committee list within the same announcement, community by community.
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1927-08-01 (publication)
Locator: Page 2, announcement and committee list
Relevant passageCLARKE COUNTY FALL MEET AT BOYCE, VA. FRIDAY, SEP. 16, 1927. In Mr. R. P. Page's Woods. This Basket Picnic is under the auspices of the Clarke County School League; and the League will spare no pains to make this one of most enjoyable functions of Vacation Season. Contests and Field Sports, Baseball Contest a Specialty. COMMITTEE: Rev. E. T. Johnson, President, Mr. Jacob Jackson, Berryville, Miss Hannah Randolph, Boyce, Mr. Geo. Edwards, Louisville, Mr. DeRoy Layton, Millwood, Mr. Jno. Togging [Toggins], Stone Bridge, Mr. Geo. Carter, Webbtown, Mr. Edward Crittenden, White Post, Mrs. Alma B. Layton, Sec'ty.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: peoples-journal. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-08. How this project checks its sources
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The Clarke Courier called it the County League of Negro schools. The People's Journal called it the Clarke County School League. It had $28 when it started and $1,265.95 eleven months later.
What the evidence says Two independent newspapers. Four identifications, each marked as ours.