It was the first American school to educate black, blind, and deaf students.[3]
In 1923 white students moved to its current site in Raleigh, while black students were on the original campus,[1] in Garner. The school took both deaf and blind black students.[4]
In 1964 it got its current name.[1] In 1966 the U.S. federal authorities were withholding $89,927 aid in Title I funds as the school had not yet desegregated.[4] In 1967, as part of racial desegregation, the school began swapping the racial groups across the campuses.[1] Black deaf students were to be moved to the North Carolina School for the Deaf and the East North Carolina School for the Deaf, so Morehead became a blind-only school.[4] In 1977 desegregation was completed.[1]
In 2014 there were discussions over whether the City of Raleigh should buy land that included GMS property.[5] The property concerned included a field, unused, with 7.3 acres (3.0 ha) of land total. In 2014 the City of Raleigh offered to buy the Dorothea Dix property and the Morehead field for $51.26 million.[6] The North Carolina House of Representatives approved a bill allowing the sale.[7]
^Robert Topkins, John Baxton Flower, III, and Catherine Cockshutt (June 1982). "North Carolina School for the Blind and Deaf Dormitory"(PDF). National Register of Historic Places – Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved July 9, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Pridgen, Rosie L. T. "Martha Louise Morrow Foxx". Hall of Fame: Leaders and Legends of the Blindness Field; American Printing House for the Blind. Retrieved July 9, 2021.