How Did John B Rayner Affect The State Of Texas Education

A fact that during John B. Rayner’s lifetime included important issues that happened in the state of Texas during his time included larger and growing industries. Texas during the late nineteenth century was a time when big ranches popped up in the state. Not to mention, the expansion of the railroad in the state of Texas had helped goods to travel faster to their destination. In fact, the railroad allowed ranches and farms to transport their products or goods across the United States more efficiently without the need of a horse and wagon, or the payment of rustlers to transport livestock over state lines in large herds. However, small farmers wanted reforms passed to help improve their economic situation against big ranches through the

Rayner failed to get this proposal passed by the state of Texas. Texas decided that his idea was not worth it. In spite of his idea being rejected, the black education reform proposal made a lot of people look at John B. Rayner has an educational theorist so much so that Dr. James Johnston, the founder of the newly black technical college in Conroe Texas had hired him on their school board in late 1904. During Rayner’s time on their school board, he was in charge of raising or using funds for the newly built college. Rayner had helped raised funds for it by getting former business associates like lumber magnate John Henry Kirby along with a few Texas business and political leaders to contribute money to the college. Rayner helped to utilize the funds that he had to build necessary structures on the Conroe-Porter College campus and repair existing structures. Not to mention, Rayner expanded the land that the Conroe-Porter College had by 100 acres in 1906. As a result, Rayner expanded the variety of classes offer at the college during that time. For example, Rayner had helped to create the agricultural, and the home economics department, which he and Johnston had hired an instructor from the Tuskegee Institute as the department head of the agricultural department, and offered home economics for women. Rayner then expanded not only the number of classes that students could take at the Conroe-Porter College, as a result the number of

Rayner was a fascinating character that lived during Reconstruction, and the early twentieth century in Texas. He was an African American man that had accomplished so much for his black supporters for his time. John B. Rayner helped to start programs that were similar to Booker T. Washington’s educational programs that helped African Americans in Texas to get decent paying jobs through education and reform. Even though John B. Rayner supported the poll tax, he believed that the educated class had a right to vote and make political decisions that would benefit the Black people of Texas, through the use of the Populist party which made him a truly unique political organizer of history that give black people a voice to be heard in the tough Lone Star State during this