“I have had to sacrifice time, both day and night, to light a torch of instruction which I hope will cause the public to see the purpose of this much-needed institution for my race,” Beulah Rucker Oliver wrote about her school in the book “The Rugged Pathway.” Rucker founded the Industrial School in Gainesville in 1914. Its primary purpose was to educate African-Americans in a time when many schools did not allow black students.