Education never was far from the hearts and minds of local citizens. In 1886, a pay school was in operation on Green Street with Mr. Bob Eason as superintendent. At about the same time a free school was in operation in a building on the south side of Noble and Sumner Streets. This was a three-months school with Mr. Pope as principal, Nannie Richardson, Sarah Stancill, a Mr. Dalrymple and others as teachers. Some of the students were Pat, Emma, Minnie, Louise Parker (Mrs. J. P. Temple); John, Noble, Emma, and Effie Blackman; Herman and Bill Hines; Henry, Howard, Pauline, Annie Hood; Hazel, Maurice, Robert Waddell; Joseph, Maggie, Vick Whitley; Ellen, Willie, Lomie Talton; Joseph, Jim, Winnie Peedin; Henry P. Underhill; Richard, Herman, Daisy Oliver; Kelly, Thomas, Minnie Lee Peedin; Bradley, Windley, Hughes Pearce. (These names were listed in the J. B. Waddell History of Selma.)
In 1901, the pay school, which originally faced Green Street, was turned to face Waddell Street, additions were made to the building, and it was run as a free school. During this latter period, the principals included Professors Hassell and later Frederic Archer. Later this building was moved across the railroad and became the Negro school near the site of the present Richardson B. Harrison School.
From the History of Selma - Centennial Program.
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