- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- Photograph of Dorchester Academy students, Thebes community, Georgia, 1927
- Date of Original:
- 1927
- Subject:
- Schools--Georgia
Children--Georgia
African Americans--Georgia
Education--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Liberty County, 31.80723, -81.45626
United States, Georgia, Liberty County, Thebes, 32.165622, -82.900075 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Students of Dorchester Academy. See lib092
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_lib093
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:lib093
- 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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