About Mr. A. J. Moore

ID: 2341 ~ Source: Smith, Willie Long and Clemmie Holloway Long, interviewed by Rebecca Jimenez, May 2, 1985, in Waco, Texas, Baylor Institute for Oral History. View Full Interview (Interview 4).
This file appears in: A. J. Moore High School

Moore student Willie Smith remembers Mr. Moore and what he was like as a principal.

This file appears in: A. J. Moore High School

By Amanda Sawyer
In 1875, Professor Alexander James Moore of Paul Quinn College, concerned at the lack of quality education for African American children in Waco, began teaching small groups of young children out of his home. Though Reconstruction Legislature of…