United States, Georgia, Liberty County, McIntosh, 31.82577, -81.523721708/2022Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Dorchester Academy, today an active community center and museum, was founded as a school for freedpeople. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. prepared for the 1963 Birmingham campaign, one of the first major victories of the civil rights movement, in this building.Photograph of the exterior of Dorchester Academy in McIntosh, Georgia. The large two-story brick structure features a neoclassical entrance. The building sits on a sprawling lawn.Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Dorchester Academy, today an active community center and museum, was founded as a school for freed slaves. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. prepared for the 1963 Birmingham campaign, one of the first major victories of the civil rights movement, in this building.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/liberty-countyForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/liberty-countyForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaSchools--Georgia--McIntoshMuseums--Georgia--McIntoshHistoric buildings--Georgia--McIntoshBuildings--Georgia--McIntoshPorticoes--Georgia--McIntoshPediments--Georgia--McIntoshColumns--Georgia--McIntoshCommunity centers--Georgia--McIntoshAfrican Americans--Education--Georgia--McIntoshAfrican American schools--Georgia--McIntoshNeoclassicism (Architecture)--Georgia--McIntoshSchool buildings--Georgia--McIntoshDorchester Academy (McIntosh, Ga.)McIntosh (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc.Dorchester AcademyStillImage