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Source:NC A & T UNIVERSITY, 3/3/21
Black History Month provided the opportunity for Extension at A&T to look back on some of its trailblazing employees who traveled North Carolina by horse over dirt roads as the state's first African American Extension Agents. John
W. Mitchell worked for Extension from 1917 through 1943, when he was
appointed to the
specially created post of National Extension Leader on the Division of the
Department of Cooperative Extension Work. Neil Alexander
Bailey became A&T's first Extension agent in 1910 after
20 years as a school teacher. Bailey worked in Guildford, Randolph, and
Rockingham counties and one of his job requirements was having a horse and
buggy to travel to visit farmers, Read more about these Extension pioneers here.
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