- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of two girls, Thebes community, Georgia, 193-]
- Date of Original:
- 1930/1939
- Subject:
- Children--Georgia
African Americans--Georgia--Liberty County
Education--Georgia--Liberty County
Portraits--Georgia--Liberty County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Liberty County, 31.80723, -81.45626
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Thebes community, 1930s. According to oral tradition, these two girls walked over ten miles each way to school at Dorchester Academy.
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_lib098
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:lib098
- Rights Holder:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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