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When the tiny African American community on Georgia's St Simon's Island set out to save its one-room schoolhouse, it didn't realize that the building was a link to an historic effort to combat racial discrimination in the early 20th Century.
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Produced for VOA, Sept 2011
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HIDDEN HISTORY SAVES AFRICAN AMERICAN SCHOOL
((TEXT))
The Harrington School doesn’t look like much. The abandoned building is surrounded by a rusty metal fence. The roof has holes in it, some wooden siding has fallen off, and it badly needs a coat of paint. The school looked so dilapidated that two years ago, community leaders and even the local historical society had given up hope it could be saved.
((AUDIO Roberts ))
“They said that the building just wasn’t worth saving, and you could just look at it and tell it was going to fall any minute, so let’s just tear it down.”
((TEXT))
Amy Roberts has lived on St. Simons Island all her life, and has fond memories of the school. She attended first grade there in 1953, and remembers lessons in and out of the classroom.
((AUDIO Roberts ))
“How many children can say that they went to school and it was out in the yard and they saw a ca...
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When the tiny African-American community on Georgia’s St. Simons Island set out to save its one-room schoolhouse, it didn’t realize that the building was a link to an historic effort to combat racial discrimination in the segregated society of the early 20th century.
Independent Reporter Philip Graitcer [GREAT-SIR] has this report.
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