Chatham County Historical Association - George Moses Horton School

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Preserving and sharing the history of Chatham County North Carolina

George Moses Horton School

29 Feb 2024 11:58 AM | Chatham Historical Museum (Administrator)

In 2021, the Horton School was renamed to clearly honor George Moses Horton, the first Black man to publish a book in the South. Learn more about Horton, who was enslaved on a Chatham plantation, on our website:

https://chathamhistory.org/resources/Documents/PDFs/ResearchArticles/TheWorksofGeorgeMosesHorton.pdf

and on this YouTube video on the George Moses Horton Middle School home page:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpCrv8xdZeo

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