Abstract:
Dr. N. C. Newbold directed the Division of Negro Education from 1913 to 1935. The Pasquotank County native studied at Duke University, Columbia, Yale, and Harvard. During his service as Division of Negro Education in the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction the number of black pupils and teachers dedicated to their tutelage increased greatly from 160,000 students and 2,800 teachers in 1913 to 340,895 students and 6,600 teachers in 1935.