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Governor’s Specialty Advisory Committee on Education is Created

August 27, 2021 by Flood Center

In the summer of 1954, Governor Umstead responded to the Brown decision by creating the Governor’s Specialty Advisory Committee on Education, led by Thomas Pearsall, an attorney and politician from Rocky Mount, NC. Umstead claimed that the goal of the committee was to “establish a policy and a program which will preserve the State public school system by having the support of the people.”

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