Oakland Normal School was a normal school in Oakland, Colorado County, Texas[1] for training African American teachers.
[3] G. R. Townsend and then Robert Lloyd Smith served as the school's principals.
[4] Robert Lloyd Smith taught at the school before becoming principal.
[5] He was active in seeking to improve the lives of the community's African Americans and formed an improvement society for farmers.
[1] Smith travelled from Oakland to Hampton Institute to speak and discussions included establishing an agricultural college in Texas following the Tuskegee teaching model.