For many Black residents in one Tennessee locality, a building is not only history, it's a major part of their own stories. And it's certainly seen better days. A group is now on a mission to save the building and tell its story.
For many Black residents in Tennessee, one building is not only history, it's a major part of their own lives. And it's certainly seen better days. A group is now on a mission to save the building and tell its story.
Every time Shirley sees this building, the memories come flooding back to when she'd go running up its steps, to her school. Two teachers. Four classrooms. Even at that, this school from the era of segregation only went up through 8th grade. After that, kids like Shirley would be bused 24 miles away to a school in Mount Pleasant.Shirley said all of that is a major part of Lawrenceburg's Black history. The building has been other things through the years, but now it's long been abandoned. Shirley wants to save the place.
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