A Letter for Literacy: Eliza Kremer Explains the Value of Education for Forsyth
Kremer Preparatory School in Winston. Images courtesy of Forsyth County Public Library Photograph Collection.
distraction from the worries and realities of wartime. The young boys needed to continue to grow and be strong men like their fathers. Thankfully, education has been made available to most of the community, and avid learners can be found throughout Salem and Winston. Though the state barred them from education long before the War, the newly freed Negro community, both girls and boys, again enjoy the gift of learning to read and write, and even
are building more schoolhouses to reach anyone who wants to learn. I have confidence that Kremer Preparatory, the first school in Winston, will be able to provide the same great education that the other schools were able to provide throughout the War.
During the Civil War and in the ten years following, education has secured our community's future and allowed students a way to find peace during times in which the fate of Salem and Winston hung so delicately in the balance.
ELiza Kremer, one of Winston's first and most influential schoolteachers.