Virginia Normal Industrial Certificate, January 14, 1914
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The text of this certificate reads, "Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Public Instruction. Normal Industrial Certificate. This certifies that C. M. Wood, having presented a Diploma of Graduation from Va. Normal Industrial Inst., Petersburg, and having furnished satisfactory evidence of good moral character, and fitness to teach, is hereby granted this Certificate and is duly authorized to teach in the Public Elementary Schools of Virginia for a term of Seven Years from July 1, 1914, unless this Certificate be sooner revoked, subject, however, to the provisions of circular Form E. No. 19. Given under our hands this 14th day of January, nineteen hundred and fourteen. Race Colored. No. [left blank]. State Department of Public Instruction, by R. C. Stearnes, Supt. Pub. Instruction."