This method is knows as an “individual diagnostic/ prescriptive method” and focuses on identifying issues with an individual’s typing methods and developing personalized strategies to create new learned behaviors. Together the pair honed and taught the Cortez Peters typing methodology in their schools and later through books and online. was an accomplished typist in his own right, winning several awards for both speed and accuracy. helped his father run these institutions, eventually taking over after his father’s death in 1964. Eventually the school expanded to cover 22 subjects and taught an estimated 100,000 students across all three locations. In addition to typing, the schools also taught shorthand and other clerical skills to help African Americans break into white collar professions.
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The schools were among the only privately owned African American schools in the nation, and were among the first to teach the professional skill or typing to a black audience. Over the next seven years two more locations opened, in Baltimore (1935) and Chicago (1941), and remained in operation until the mid-1970s. opened the Cortez Peters Business School in Washington, D.C. His self-taught style accounted for his unique typing methodology for developing accuracy and speed. Born in 1906 in Baltimore, Maryland, Peters taught himself to type at the age of 11 after his father, a watchmaker, received a used typewriter as payment for his services. was the first African American to win and hold the title of the World’s Accuracy Typist upon winning the World’s Amateur Typing Contest in 1925.
1958 Medium enamel on metal with plastic Dimensions H x W x D: 9 1/2 × 17 1/8 × 17 1/16 in. Manufactured by Royal Typewriter Company, American, founded 1904 Used by Peters, Cortez W.
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