September 5, 1911

Robeson, North Carolina

Normal school, Lumbee, Segregation, Indians

“The State is in earnest in her effort to educate all of her children” declared H. L. Edens on September 5, 1911. The remark was made in an announcement that declared the Indian Normal School of Robeson County, which would later become the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, had been accepted “as a State institution.” In a time in which the South was entrenched deeply in the institution...