Charles+B.+Aycock

Charles B. Aycock

Charles B. Aycock of Goldsboro was governor from 1901-1905. He supported better public schools for all races. He championed the idea of universal education. Every child, white and black, was able to attend better schools. The legislature was to provide opportunities through equalization. Aycock argued across the state, every young person could begin to gain the skills need for the new jobs of the days. Aycock made it clear to everyone that the new schools would be segregated, but he personally wanted growth for the black schools. Many people disagreed with the idea of blacks and whites able to learn together and riots broke out in several places. Whites had a choice of either going to a white school or allowing their childern to learn with colored people.

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William Taft

President Taft was the 27th president of the United States. He was the only president to go on to seve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. William Taft was a poor politician. As William Taft was in the White House, he had four uncomfortable years. William Taft was born in 1857 and his father was a judge. President Roosevelt made him Secretary of War, and by 1907 had decided that Taft should be his successor. He was voted the next year.

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