Draft:Sherman Industrial Institute

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Declined by Missvain 21 months ago. Last edited by Explicit 20 days ago. Reviewer: Inform author.
Resubmit Please note that if the issues are not fixed, the draft will be declined again.

Comment: Only one of the sources discusses this school in a significant way.
Please provide more reliable secondary sources that examines the school in detail. This article would not survive if it was nominated for deletion its current state due to the lack of sourcing. It fails GNG and
WP:NSCHOOL at this moment.
Thank you!! Missvain (talk
) 22:34, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Central Alabama Academy and North Huntsville School should link here

Sherman Industrial Institute was a school for African Americans in Huntsville, Alabama.^[1] Teachers at the school were African American. It was organized in 1891 as North Huntsville School. It was named for Union Army general William Tecumseh Sherman.^[2]

The school's site was owned by the

Freedman's Aid Society and had been home to Central Alabama Academy.^[3]

History

Central Alabama Academy was founded in Huntsville in 1870. Rev. A. W. McKinney A.M. served as its principal.[4]

F. R. Davis served as principal of Sherman Industrial Institute.^[5]

In 1922, Sherman Industrial Institute was reported to be non-sectarian and to have 5 teachers for its 180 students.^[6]

References

^ "Annual Report of the Department of Education of the State of Alabama". December 22, 1911 – via Google Books.
^ "Page 359". digital.ncdcr.gov.
^ Larson, Walter E.; Judd, Charles Hubbard; Eliot, Charles William; Williams, J. Harold; Hoke, Kremer Jacob; Education, United States Office of; Ryan, Will Carson; Parker, Samuel Chester (December 22, 1917). "State Higher Educational Institutions of Iowa: A Report to the Iowa State Board of Education of a Survey Made Under the Direction of the Commissioner of Education". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
^ "Private-Schools-057-CENTRAL-ALABAMA-ACADEMY-HUNTSVILLE-ALA". digitalarchives.hmcpl.org.
^ https://books.google.com/books?id=jPNEAQAAMAAJ&dq=sherman+industrial+institute+huntsville&pg=RA2-PA68
^ "Negro Year Book and Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro". Negro Year Book Publishing Company. December 22, 1922 – via Google Books.

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[1] "Annual Report of the Department of Education of the State of Alabama". December 22, 1911 – via Google Books.

[2] "Page 359". digital.ncdcr.gov.

[3] Larson, Walter E.; Judd, Charles Hubbard; Eliot, Charles William; Williams, J. Harold; Hoke, Kremer Jacob; Education, United States Office of; Ryan, Will Carson; Parker, Samuel Chester (December 22, 1917). "State Higher Educational Institutions of Iowa: A Report to the Iowa State Board of Education of a Survey Made Under the Direction of the Commissioner of Education". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.

[4] "Private-Schools-057-CENTRAL-ALABAMA-ACADEMY-HUNTSVILLE-ALA". digitalarchives.hmcpl.org.

[5] ttps://books.google.com/books?id=jPNEAQAAMAAJ&dq=sherman+industrial+institute+huntsville&pg=RA2-PA68

[6] "Negro Year Book and Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro". Negro Year Book Publishing Company. December 22, 1922 – via Google Books.

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