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The Unofficial Site

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By the Book: Education Exhibit

  • Highlights three segments of education

1.      Early history of education

2.      African-American education experience in Anderson County’s Rosenwald schools. Rosenwald schools were African American schools prior to   integration.

3.      Integration

  • Rosenwald schools are among the most important endangered structures in U.S. history according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. There were between 19 and 21 Rosenwald schools in Anderson and only three of them are still standing. This is a premier restoration projects for historians.

http://www.preservationnation.org/travel-and-sites/sites/southern-region/rosenwald-schools/

  • If you don’t see your school or your parents or grandparents school, just remember that there have been over 400 schools in the history of Anderson County!

  • Also enjoy the one-room schoolhouse

  • These country schools would teach 1st-8th grade all in one room

  • Can you find the school bell?

  • Where’s the blackboard?

  • See the flag? How many stars are on it?

  • You may be asked when Boys and Girls High integrated

  • Answer: 1962-1963