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-Tennessee, Black History, Rosenwald Schools, Schools

The Legacy of Rosenwald Schools: Allen-White School in Whiteville, Tennessee

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The Allen-White School ruins in Whiteville, Tennessee, are the remaining artifacts of a brick Rosenwald School. Initially, the school was known as the Hardeman County Training School. The school began in 1905 in a Masonic lodge building. In 1919, the Rosenwald Foundation funded the building of a new elementary school on land next to the El Canaan Missionary Baptist Church. In 1930, the school added a junior high, and in 1932, it added high school grades. The first graduating class was in 1933. It was the only school for Black students in Hardeman County.

It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005 and destroyed by arson in 2012.

-Tennessee, National Register of Historic Places, Rosenwald Schools, Schools

Pocahontas School-Pocahontas, Tennessee

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Pocahontas School in Hardeman County, Tennessee, is a four-teacher type school. Built in 1924 using Rosenwald funds, the school educated Black schoolchildren until the late 1960s. Despite the passing of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, schools in Hardeman County did not desegregate until more than ten years later.

The school was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.