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Buckingham Training School

N James Madison Hwy, VA , USA

Latitude & Longitude: 37° 32' 36.185532", -78° 28' 27.606828"
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One mile southeast stood Buckingham Training School, the first high school in the county for African American students. In 1919 the Rev. Stephen J. Ellis organized the County-Wide League for School Improvement to persuade the Buckingham County School Board to build a secondary school for black students. When this effort failed, Ellis and his supporters raised $3,000 to match a grant from the Julius Rosenwald Fund, established in 1917 to build schools for black students in the rural South. The four-room high school opened in 1924 with Thomas L. Dabney as principal and served the community until it closed in 1953.

Last updated: 2/14/2015 15:17:00
 
   
 
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