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Named by the People's Journal in 1924 as pastor of the Free Baptist Church and principal of the Berryville school, and by the Clarke Courier in 1925 as a teacher at the Josephine colored school and as president of the county's Black school league. Named again as League president by the People's Journal in 1927. He is the strongest single bridge between the two newspapers in this corpus.
Free Baptist pastor. School principal. President of the county's Black school league.
In the summer of 1925 the Clarke Courier printed a status update on the county's Black school league. It had been organized on the eleventh of July the year before, with twenty-eight dollars to its credit, and by that June report it had raised $1,265.95 toward a County Training School, with $234.15 still to go12. The report named its president: Rev. E. T. Johnson.
The same year, the two Berryville papers between them cross-identified the school he principaled. The People's Journal's October 1924 roster listed him as principal, alongside Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Fanny Jenkins as assistants, at a school it called Berryville. The Clarke Courier's July 1925 teacher assignment list named the same three teachers, in the same roles, at what it called the Josephine colored school1. Reading the two entries together, this is one school under two names — the Black paper naming it for the town, the white paper for the Black neighborhood2. The identification rests on three names in three roles across nine months and is qualified in the corpus for exactly that reason.
A second identification: the county-wide Black school organization the Clarke Courier called the Clarke County Colored school league and the County League of Negro schools in 1925 is, on the evidence, the same organization the People's Journal called the Clarke County School League when it announced a Fall Meet at Boyce in August 19271. Neither paper states the other's name for it. The identification rests on three convergent details — both describe a county-wide Black organization, both operate through the same 1920s Berryville-area network, and the League's president Johnson is a common figure. It is an inference this site draws, not a fact either paper reports.
Three roles in a small window: the League president in June 1925, the school principal in October 1924 and July 1925, and — by his title in the Free Baptist Church, which the People's Journal recorded — the pastor of one of Josephine City's congregations at the same time. He is the closest thing the corpus has to a named 1920s civic hub for the county's Black community.
Five claims, three separately identifiable roles, no birth or death date on the site. Church books for the Free Baptist Church, and Virginia death certificates 1920–1940, are the two nearest research targets.
The Clarke Courier reported on 18 June 1925 that a County League of Negro schools had been organised on 11 July 1924, beginning with $28 to its credit.
That a Clarke County newspaper printed a specific founding date and opening balance for a Black county-wide school organisation. The date is arithmetic on the paper's own phrase 'the 11th of July one year ago' in an issue dated 18 June 1925.
A newspaper report published eleven months after the event it dates. It establishes what the Courier printed, not that the organisation was founded on that day. Nothing here establishes who called the founding meeting, where it was held, or who attended.
Evidence role: supports. The Courier's own sentence giving the founding date and the opening balance.
Clarke Courier · 1925-06-18 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, report: NEGRO SCHOOL LEAGUE MADE FINE SHOWING
Relevant passageThe County League of Negro schools was organized the 11th of July one year ago, at which time $28 was placed to its credit. The purpose of the league is to raise money with which to establish a County Training school for negro children. Through special drives, entertainments and contributions from both white and <*>lored [colored] friends the league was able to report on Tuesday night June 9th. $1265.95 toward the project in view. Before it can locate and begin to build $234.15 must be raised. A special drive has been arranged to end August 7th, at which time the league hopes to raise the required sum. The president, Rev. E. T. Johnson, wishes to thank every contributor and further solicits your good will.
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AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-08. How this project checks its sources
The Clarke Courier reported on 18 June 1925 that the League's purpose was to raise money to establish a County Training School for Black children, that $1,265.95 had been reported on 9 June 1925, that $234.15 remained to be raised before it could locate and build, and that its president was Rev. E. T. Johnson.
That the League had a stated building purpose, a named president, and a specific published financial position ten and a half months after its founding, funded by contributions the paper describes as coming from both white and Black donors.
Figures as printed by the newspaper; no accounts were inspected. The report does not say where the school was to be built, and explicitly says the League had not yet located a site. It does not establish that the school was ever built. The word rendered '<*>lored' by OCR is read as 'colored'.
Evidence role: supports. The same report, for the purpose, the two money figures, the drive deadline and the president's name.
Clarke Courier · 1925-06-18 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, report: NEGRO SCHOOL LEAGUE MADE FINE SHOWING
Relevant passageThe County League of Negro schools was organized the 11th of July one year ago, at which time $28 was placed to its credit. The purpose of the league is to raise money with which to establish a County Training school for negro children. Through special drives, entertainments and contributions from both white and <*>lored [colored] friends the league was able to report on Tuesday night June 9th. $1265.95 toward the project in view. Before it can locate and begin to build $234.15 must be raised. A special drive has been arranged to end August 7th, at which time the league hopes to raise the required sum. The president, Rev. E. T. Johnson, wishes to thank every contributor and further solicits your good will.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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The People's Journal's October 1924 school roster and the Clarke Courier's July 1925 teacher assignment list name the same three teachers, in the same roles, at a school the first calls Berryville and the second calls the Josephine colored school.
That two independent papers printed the same three staff names nine months apart under two different names for the school: Rev. E. T. Johnson as principal with Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Fanny Jenkins in the People's Journal, and E. T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins and Florine Johnson in the Courier.
Reading the People's Journal's 'Mrs. F. Johnson' as the Courier's 'Florine Johnson' is an expansion of an initial and is probable rather than certain. The Courier's list does not repeat the People's Journal's designation of Johnson as principal.
Evidence role: supports. The People's Journal roster: Berryville, Rev. E. T. Johnson principal, Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Fanny Jenkins.
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1924-10-01 (publication)
Locator: School roster, printed page not recorded
Relevant passageBerryville: Rev. E. T. Johnson, pastor of the Free Baptist Church, principal; Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Fanny Jenkins, assistants. Louisville: Miss Pattie Smith. White Post: Miss Mitchell.
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Evidence role: supports. The Courier list: Josephine colored school, E T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins, Florine Johnson.
Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, colored schools
Relevant passageStone Bridge colored -- Ella F. Carter. Boyce Colored -- Alma Layton and Matilda Herbert. Millwood Colored -- J. P Rier, Prin., Louise Bannister and Clarissa Layton. White Post Colored -- Estelle Mitchell and Margaretta Richarson. Josephine colored school -- E T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins, Florine Johnson. Louisville colored -- Emma E. Alexander. Bristol colored -- George W. Carter.
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AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-08. How this project checks its sources
The school the People's Journal called the Berryville school in 1924 and the school the Clarke Courier called the Josephine colored school in 1925 are one school under two names, the Black paper naming it for the town and the white paper for the Black neighbourhood.
That a place-name search across these two papers cannot be relied on to find the same institution, because the two papers named it differently. This is why the absence of the token 'Josephine City' from a body of Courier text is not evidence about coverage of Josephine City.
An identification from a shared staff of three across nine months, not a statement either paper makes. Two schools could in principle share staff. This claim says nothing about the school BUILDING: the entity josephine-school in this corpus denotes the structure the Department of Historic Resources dates to 1882, and nothing in the cited records establishes that the 1924 and 1925 school was in that building, so that entity is deliberately not linked here.
Evidence role: supports. The People's Journal naming the school for the town.
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1924-10-01 (publication)
Locator: School roster, printed page not recorded
Relevant passageBerryville: Rev. E. T. Johnson, pastor of the Free Baptist Church, principal; Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Fanny Jenkins, assistants. Louisville: Miss Pattie Smith. White Post: Miss Mitchell.
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Open sourceSource family: peoples-journal. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The Courier naming the same staff under the neighbourhood name.
Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, colored schools
Relevant passageStone Bridge colored -- Ella F. Carter. Boyce Colored -- Alma Layton and Matilda Herbert. Millwood Colored -- J. P Rier, Prin., Louise Bannister and Clarissa Layton. White Post Colored -- Estelle Mitchell and Margaretta Richarson. Josephine colored school -- E T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins, Florine Johnson. Louisville colored -- Emma E. Alexander. Bristol colored -- George W. Carter.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. 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 county-wide Black school organisation the Clarke Courier called the Clarke County Colored school league and the County League of Negro schools in 1925 is the same organisation the People's Journal called the Clarke County School League in 1927.
That two independent newspapers, one white and one Black, were describing one organisation under three different names, so that the Courier's 1925 founding date, purpose and finances and the People's Journal's 1927 officers and community delegates describe a single continuous body.
Neither paper states the other's name for the organisation, so this is an identification and not a reported fact. It rests on three convergent details: both describe a county-wide organisation of Black schools in Clarke County, both name Rev. E. T. Johnson as its president, and the dates are two years apart with no gap in between established either way. It does not establish continuity of membership, constitution or activity across those two years, and it does not establish that the County Training School the 1925 report describes was ever built.
Evidence role: supports. The Courier in 1925 naming Rev. E. T. Johnson as president of the County League of Negro schools.
Clarke Courier · 1925-06-18 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, report: NEGRO SCHOOL LEAGUE MADE FINE SHOWING
Relevant passageThe County League of Negro schools was organized the 11th of July one year ago, at which time $28 was placed to its credit. The purpose of the league is to raise money with which to establish a County Training school for negro children. Through special drives, entertainments and contributions from both white and <*>lored [colored] friends the league was able to report on Tuesday night June 9th. $1265.95 toward the project in view. Before it can locate and begin to build $234.15 must be raised. A special drive has been arranged to end August 7th, at which time the league hopes to raise the required sum. The president, Rev. E. T. Johnson, wishes to thank every contributor and further solicits your good will.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The People's Journal in 1927 naming Rev. E. T. Johnson as President on the Clarke County School League committee. Written by a different paper for a different readership, so this is corroboration and not repetition.
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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Open sourceSource family: peoples-journal. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: contextualizes. The Courier's third name for the body, 'Clarke County Colored school league', which is closer to the People's Journal's name than its own June wording and shows the naming was unstable within one paper.
Clarke Courier · 1925-04-30 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 8, notice: W. D. GRESHAM TO SPEAK HERE
Relevant passageProf. W. D. Gresham, supervisor of Negro education of Virginia, will speak at the Court House, Berryville, on Monday night, May 4th, at 8 o'clock. This meeting will be held under the auspices of the Clarke County Colored school league. Every colored man with an educational pride wish for self-help or race development will be there, according to a statement given out by officers of the league. Hie [The] school officials and many white friends of the negro institution of learning are invited, special seats [be]ing reserved for them. Mr. Leslie D. Kline, division superintendent of schools, will preside, it was stated.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. 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 Courier reported on 18 June 1925 that a County League of Negro schools had been organised on 11 July 1924, beginning with $28 to its credit.
The Clarke Courier reported on 18 June 1925 that a County League of Negro schools had been organised on 11 July 1924, beginning with $28 to its credit.
That a Clarke County newspaper printed a specific founding date and opening balance for a Black county-wide school organisation. The date is arithmetic on the paper's own phrase 'the 11th of July one year ago' in an issue dated 18 June 1925.
A newspaper report published eleven months after the event it dates. It establishes what the Courier printed, not that the organisation was founded on that day. Nothing here establishes who called the founding meeting, where it was held, or who attended.
Evidence role: supports. The Courier's own sentence giving the founding date and the opening balance.
Clarke Courier · 1925-06-18 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, report: NEGRO SCHOOL LEAGUE MADE FINE SHOWING
Relevant passageThe County League of Negro schools was organized the 11th of July one year ago, at which time $28 was placed to its credit. The purpose of the league is to raise money with which to establish a County Training school for negro children. Through special drives, entertainments and contributions from both white and <*>lored [colored] friends the league was able to report on Tuesday night June 9th. $1265.95 toward the project in view. Before it can locate and begin to build $234.15 must be raised. A special drive has been arranged to end August 7th, at which time the league hopes to raise the required sum. The president, Rev. E. T. Johnson, wishes to thank every contributor and further solicits your good will.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. 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 Courier reported on 18 June 1925 that the League's purpose was to raise money to establish a County Training School for Black children, that $1,265.95 had been reported on 9 June 1925, that $234.15 remained to be raised before it could locate and build, and that its president was Rev. E. T. Johnson.
The Clarke Courier reported on 18 June 1925 that the League's purpose was to raise money to establish a County Training School for Black children, that $1,265.95 had been reported on 9 June 1925, that $234.15 remained to be raised before it could locate and build, and that its president was Rev. E. T. Johnson.
That the League had a stated building purpose, a named president, and a specific published financial position ten and a half months after its founding, funded by contributions the paper describes as coming from both white and Black donors.
Figures as printed by the newspaper; no accounts were inspected. The report does not say where the school was to be built, and explicitly says the League had not yet located a site. It does not establish that the school was ever built. The word rendered '<*>lored' by OCR is read as 'colored'.
Evidence role: supports. The same report, for the purpose, the two money figures, the drive deadline and the president's name.
Clarke Courier · 1925-06-18 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, report: NEGRO SCHOOL LEAGUE MADE FINE SHOWING
Relevant passageThe County League of Negro schools was organized the 11th of July one year ago, at which time $28 was placed to its credit. The purpose of the league is to raise money with which to establish a County Training school for negro children. Through special drives, entertainments and contributions from both white and <*>lored [colored] friends the league was able to report on Tuesday night June 9th. $1265.95 toward the project in view. Before it can locate and begin to build $234.15 must be raised. A special drive has been arranged to end August 7th, at which time the league hopes to raise the required sum. The president, Rev. E. T. Johnson, wishes to thank every contributor and further solicits your good will.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. 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 county-wide Black school organisation the Clarke Courier called the Clarke County Colored school league and the County League of Negro schools in 1925 is the same organisation the People's Journal called the Clarke County School League in 1927.
The county-wide Black school organisation the Clarke Courier called the Clarke County Colored school league and the County League of Negro schools in 1925 is the same organisation the People's Journal called the Clarke County School League in 1927.
That two independent newspapers, one white and one Black, were describing one organisation under three different names, so that the Courier's 1925 founding date, purpose and finances and the People's Journal's 1927 officers and community delegates describe a single continuous body.
Neither paper states the other's name for the organisation, so this is an identification and not a reported fact. It rests on three convergent details: both describe a county-wide organisation of Black schools in Clarke County, both name Rev. E. T. Johnson as its president, and the dates are two years apart with no gap in between established either way. It does not establish continuity of membership, constitution or activity across those two years, and it does not establish that the County Training School the 1925 report describes was ever built.
Evidence role: supports. The Courier in 1925 naming Rev. E. T. Johnson as president of the County League of Negro schools.
Clarke Courier · 1925-06-18 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, report: NEGRO SCHOOL LEAGUE MADE FINE SHOWING
Relevant passageThe County League of Negro schools was organized the 11th of July one year ago, at which time $28 was placed to its credit. The purpose of the league is to raise money with which to establish a County Training school for negro children. Through special drives, entertainments and contributions from both white and <*>lored [colored] friends the league was able to report on Tuesday night June 9th. $1265.95 toward the project in view. Before it can locate and begin to build $234.15 must be raised. A special drive has been arranged to end August 7th, at which time the league hopes to raise the required sum. The president, Rev. E. T. Johnson, wishes to thank every contributor and further solicits your good will.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The People's Journal in 1927 naming Rev. E. T. Johnson as President on the Clarke County School League committee. Written by a different paper for a different readership, so this is corroboration and not repetition.
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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Open sourceSource family: peoples-journal. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: contextualizes. The Courier's third name for the body, 'Clarke County Colored school league', which is closer to the People's Journal's name than its own June wording and shows the naming was unstable within one paper.
Clarke Courier · 1925-04-30 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 8, notice: W. D. GRESHAM TO SPEAK HERE
Relevant passageProf. W. D. Gresham, supervisor of Negro education of Virginia, will speak at the Court House, Berryville, on Monday night, May 4th, at 8 o'clock. This meeting will be held under the auspices of the Clarke County Colored school league. Every colored man with an educational pride wish for self-help or race development will be there, according to a statement given out by officers of the league. Hie [The] school officials and many white friends of the negro institution of learning are invited, special seats [be]ing reserved for them. Mr. Leslie D. Kline, division superintendent of schools, will preside, it was stated.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. 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's October 1924 school roster and the Clarke Courier's July 1925 teacher assignment list name the same three teachers, in the same roles, at a school the first calls Berryville and the second calls the Josephine colored school.
The People's Journal's October 1924 school roster and the Clarke Courier's July 1925 teacher assignment list name the same three teachers, in the same roles, at a school the first calls Berryville and the second calls the Josephine colored school.
That two independent papers printed the same three staff names nine months apart under two different names for the school: Rev. E. T. Johnson as principal with Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Fanny Jenkins in the People's Journal, and E. T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins and Florine Johnson in the Courier.
Reading the People's Journal's 'Mrs. F. Johnson' as the Courier's 'Florine Johnson' is an expansion of an initial and is probable rather than certain. The Courier's list does not repeat the People's Journal's designation of Johnson as principal.
Evidence role: supports. The People's Journal roster: Berryville, Rev. E. T. Johnson principal, Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Fanny Jenkins.
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1924-10-01 (publication)
Locator: School roster, printed page not recorded
Relevant passageBerryville: Rev. E. T. Johnson, pastor of the Free Baptist Church, principal; Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Fanny Jenkins, assistants. Louisville: Miss Pattie Smith. White Post: Miss Mitchell.
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Open sourceSource family: peoples-journal. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The Courier list: Josephine colored school, E T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins, Florine Johnson.
Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, colored schools
Relevant passageStone Bridge colored -- Ella F. Carter. Boyce Colored -- Alma Layton and Matilda Herbert. Millwood Colored -- J. P Rier, Prin., Louise Bannister and Clarissa Layton. White Post Colored -- Estelle Mitchell and Margaretta Richarson. Josephine colored school -- E T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins, Florine Johnson. Louisville colored -- Emma E. Alexander. Bristol colored -- George W. Carter.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. 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 school the People's Journal called the Berryville school in 1924 and the school the Clarke Courier called the Josephine colored school in 1925 are one school under two names, the Black paper naming it for the town and the white paper for the Black neighbourhood.
The school the People's Journal called the Berryville school in 1924 and the school the Clarke Courier called the Josephine colored school in 1925 are one school under two names, the Black paper naming it for the town and the white paper for the Black neighbourhood.
That a place-name search across these two papers cannot be relied on to find the same institution, because the two papers named it differently. This is why the absence of the token 'Josephine City' from a body of Courier text is not evidence about coverage of Josephine City.
An identification from a shared staff of three across nine months, not a statement either paper makes. Two schools could in principle share staff. This claim says nothing about the school BUILDING: the entity josephine-school in this corpus denotes the structure the Department of Historic Resources dates to 1882, and nothing in the cited records establishes that the 1924 and 1925 school was in that building, so that entity is deliberately not linked here.
Evidence role: supports. The People's Journal naming the school for the town.
G. L. D. Harris, editor · 1924-10-01 (publication)
Locator: School roster, printed page not recorded
Relevant passageBerryville: Rev. E. T. Johnson, pastor of the Free Baptist Church, principal; Mrs. F. Johnson and Miss Fanny Jenkins, assistants. Louisville: Miss Pattie Smith. White Post: Miss Mitchell.
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Open sourceSource family: peoples-journal. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The Courier naming the same staff under the neighbourhood name.
Clarke Courier · 1925-07-09 (publication)
Locator: Printed page 1, teacher assignment list, colored schools
Relevant passageStone Bridge colored -- Ella F. Carter. Boyce Colored -- Alma Layton and Matilda Herbert. Millwood Colored -- J. P Rier, Prin., Louise Bannister and Clarissa Layton. White Post Colored -- Estelle Mitchell and Margaretta Richarson. Josephine colored school -- E T. Johnson, Fannie Jenkins, Florine Johnson. Louisville colored -- Emma E. Alexander. Bristol colored -- George W. Carter.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. 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
Also indexed as: E. T. Johnson; E T. Johnson. Life dates that aren't known aren't guessed at here.
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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.