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Notes for LUTHER L. JAMES:
He entered the State Normal College at Jacksonville, Al where he secured his teacher's license and began his career as a teacher. He taught first at Centerview, on Tollison's Creek, near where old Sweet Gum Thicket once stood. He later taught at Mt. Olive, Colbert County. He also taught at Good Springs, Jonesboro, Ebenezer and Duncan Creed and at County Line School in Lawrence County. In May 1913, he graduated from the State Normal College at Florence. He taught at the State University and at Peabody College. He was principal of the Mt. Hope High school for one year, 1913-1914; principal of the Haleyville High school for five years, 1914-1919; he also taught and studied in the Haleyville High School 1910-1911, under Prof. J. M. Crowell; taught in the State Normal College at Florence, summer of 1919, and has been at the head of Roanoke City, or public schools, since 1919.
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