United States, Georgia, Liberty County, 31.80723, -81.45626United States, Georgia, Liberty County, Thebes, 32.165622, -82.9000751927Students of Dorchester Academy. See lib0922003/07/03: 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.image/jpeglib092http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/Schools--GeorgiaChildren--GeorgiaAfrican Americans--GeorgiaEducation--GeorgiaPhotograph of Dorchester Academy students, Thebes community, Georgia, 1927StillImage