North Carolina Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers, Inc.

This is a copy of the "BYLAWS North Carolina Congress of Colored Parents and Teahers, Inc."
(As amended at the Annual Convention, November 1953, in Kinston, N.C.)

*This belonged to the grandfather (Rev. G.C. Hawley) of the Creator and Admin of North Carolina Museum of African Americans' History & Culture*

As I read through this, I realized it's the BYLAWS of the PTA, but for "colored" parents and teachers. So, I had to goggle this to find out more. As with all aspects of our lives, it makes sense that there had to be a separate PTA for the "colored" parents, children and teachers during the time of segregation.

I found several reports and articles that have been written about the separate PTA organizations.

Here is another historical account of the forming of the PTA in North Carolina with information about Black Families and Teachers.
This is from the NCPedia web site. We are including a portion of the information, you can read the whole of it via the source link.

"Parent-Teacher Associations
by Maurice C. York, 2006
Additional research provided by Wiley J. Williams.

"Meanwhile, African Americans had become involved in PTA work. The General Assembly in 1921 authorized the Negro Division of the Department of Public Instruction. During the 1923-24 school year, following her appointment as supervisor of elementary education within this division, Annie Wealthy Holland began organizing local parent-teacher associations. On 2 Apr. 1927, a year after a national parent-teacher organization for African Americans had been founded, local representatives called to Shaw University by Holland formed the North Carolina Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers, with Holland as president. Organized in much the same way as its counterpart for whites, the North Carolina Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers worked to improve school attendance, promote the health of children, and lengthen the school year. Local units raised money to purchase land for schools, to beautify school grounds, and to acquire musical instruments and other equipment. By the early 1930s, more than 20,000 members participated in approximately 1,000 local units organized within four districts. Later that decade, the organization began publishing its newsletter

Responding to changing economic, educational, and social conditions, both organizations continued to work within their respective national organizations to improve public schools and the lives of schoolchildren. During the 1950s and 1960s the North Carolina Congress of Parents and Teachers employed radio and television advertising to further its goals. Its growing membership, which in 1960 stood at around 373,000, led to the completion that year of a headquarters building in Raleigh. Among other activities, the North Carolina Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers held annual summer camps for children and workshops for adults in Franklinton.

The two organizations merged in 1969 to become the North Carolina Congress of Parents and Teachers, known also as the North Carolina PTA. Subsequently the organization addressed such issues as early childhood education, day care, vocational education, sex education, drug and alcohol abuse, AIDS, school violence, and online pornography. The group does not seek to direct the administrative activities of the schools. In a growing number of middle and high schools, the local groups are called Parent-Teacher-Student Associations (PTSAs), as students are given a role that has included helping develop new methods of instruction and pushing for more minority participation in school activities."

Source:https://www.ncpedia.org/parent-teacher-associations