Gregory Normal School

Gregory Normal School was an American segregated high school in Wilmington, North Carolina for African American students, that operated from 1868 to 1921.

It was originally known as Wilmington Normal School when it was organized by a group of eight Protestant missionaries from New England who were sponsored by the American Missionary Association.

[3] It was a high school-level school that sought to prepare its students for studying in colleges and universities elsewhere.

It was renamed the Gregory Normal Institute in 1883 in honor of James J. H. Gregory of Marblehead, Massachusetts, who made a substantial donation to the school's operations.

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