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Salt Spring Island Archives John Craven Jones |
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| John Craven Jones and his wife Almira Scott Their daughter Madge became head of Guilford County Negro Schools, in North Carolina, USA. [FOOTNOTE 1] Madge Jones married H.H. Falkner, a North Carolina Senator before Reconstruction. H.H. Falkner was also one of six original teachers at the all-Black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (A&T [FOOTNOTE 2]) in Greensboro, a city close to Tarboro, where John Craven Jones and his wife Almira taught for 20 years, after he left Salt Spring Island in the mid-1870's. [FOOTNOTE 2] Madge's son, Waldo C. Falkner, was the second African American to be elected to the Greensboro City Council. Waldo's wife, Margaret Evans, acted as co-chair for Shirley Chisolm's campaign for Presidency in 1972. [FOOTNOTE 1] [FOOTNOTE 2] [FOOTNOTE 3]
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