- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of Dorchester Academy buildings, Thebes community, Georgia, 1927]
- Date of Original:
- 1927
- Subject:
- Schools--Georgia
African Americans--Georgia
Architecture--Georgia
Education--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Thebes community, 1927. Dorchester Academy buildings located on Georgia Hwy. 38 between McIntosh and Midway.
2003/07/03: Dorchester Academy was opened by the American Missionary Association after the Civil War to educate newly freed slaves.It was both a boarding school and a day school.It was closed in 1940 after a consolidated public school for African American youth was built by Liberty County.It is now a community center. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. often visited the center and prepared for the 1963 Birmingham civil rights campaign while at Dorchester Academy. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_lib092
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:lib092
- Additional Rights Information:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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