Posted on 10/22/2018 5:03:53 PM PDT by mrsmith
" “Those two teachers had to deal with all of us each and every day,” she remembers. “But they made sure that we were not leaving Prospect until we were ready for the next level.”
Prospect was Scott County’s only African-American school. It was located at the top of the hill on Manville Road in Gate City, in the communities known locally as Sticktown and Trot. The historic school closed because of integration in 1964, and the recent reunion was the first time the alumni had ever gathered as a group to catch up with one another. ... the new Prospect School was built for a total of $2,300, with the breakdown as follows: $1,200 from the African-American community; $600 from the Scott County Board of Education; and $500 from the Rosenwald Fund. That fund, started by Sears, Roebuck & Co. executive Julius Rosenwald, provided money for the building of more than 5,000 black schools around the South from the 1920s through the ’40s. "
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Segregation was awful. People overcame.
Meant to include this:
“We got all of our whippings in the coat room at the front of the school,” she remembers. “She’d always say, ‘Honey, I have to whip you harder than I whip the others or they’ll think I’m prejudiced.’
(Her mother was the principal there.)
After rally bump.
History.
Another bump, this is history hidden today.
From back when discrimination was real.
Last time.
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