The all-Black school operated for nearly a century until the desegregation of public schools.
A school for Black children built in the Reconstruction era is now a historic landmark in Alabama. LOWNDESBORO , Ala. - A school for Black children built in the Reconstruction era is now a historic landmark in Alabama.
The school was founded in 1867 by Dr. Mansfield Tyler and Daniel Alexander, both were formally enslaved.“Everything that we didn’t have as a school, they brought to us in some manner,” alumna Josephine McCall recalled her experience. “We were able to expound on what they brought to us and take it to the outside.”
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