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| Title: | [Photograph of Dorchester Academy buildings, Thebes community, Georgia, 1927] |
| Date: | 1927 |
| Description: | Thebes community, 1927. Dorchester Academy buildings located on Georgia Hwy. 38 between McIntosh and Midway. 2003/07/03: Dorchester Academy was opened by the American Missionary Association after the Civil War to educate newly freed slaves. It was both a boarding school and a day school. It was closed in 1940 after a consolidated public school for African American youth was built by Liberty County. It is now a community center. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. often visited the center and prepared for the 1963 Birmingham civil rights campaign while at Dorchester Academy. |
| Types: | Black-and-white photographs |
| Subjects: | Schools--Georgia | African Americans--Georgia | Architecture--Georgia | Education--Georgia | Georgia |
| Collection: | Vanishing Georgia |
| Institution: | Digital Library of Georgia |
| Contributors: | Georgia. Dept. of Archives and History | Digital Library of Georgia |
| Online Publisher: | 2004 |
| Rights and Usage: | Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260. Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/id:lib092 |
