Cardinal Gibbons Institute
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Scope and Contents
The Cardinal Gibbons Institute was a Black industrial school in southern Maryland affiliated with the Catholic Church for the purpose of providing "a boarding and day school for the education of colored youth, where they may be taught the usual branches of a sound English education, and ... also receive the instruction and practical training in agricultural, industrial and mechanical pursuits." Wood was appointed to the Board of Trustees in 1922.
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