Nathan Carter Newbold

Nathan Carter Newbold (December 27, 1871 – December 23, 1957) was the Director of African-American education in the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction from 1913-1950. Duke University has a collection of his papers.

He edited Five North Carolina Negro Educators published in 1939. Barry F. Malone wrote a dissertation on him and education in Jim Crow era North Carolina.

The North Carolina Digital Collections have some of his correspondence available online. North Carolina Central University has a collection of his and his family's papers.

History
He was a school teacher and then served as an official supervising rural schools in North Carolina. He helped establish North Carolina's Division of Negro Education in 1921.