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Mountain View Elementary School Item Info
- Title:
- Mountain View Elementary School
- Creator:
- Children of the Struggle Project
- Description:
- Mountain View Elementary School served as the primary feeder school for Black students who later attended Olive Hill High School. Like Olive Hill, Mountain View operated under severe resource shortages, receiving outdated materials and limited funding compared to white schools in Burke County. Many of the children of the West Concord Mothers began their education at Mountain View before progressing to Olive Hill, giving these families firsthand experience with the inequities of the segregated school system. In 1964, a group of students from Mountain View was selected to participate in an early transfer program that allowed Black children to attend previously all-white schools such as Forest Hill and Central Elementary. Today, Mountain View Elementary remains open and active as one of the major elementary schools in Burke County.
- Subjects:
- Mountain View Elementary education segregation desegregation place African American community
- Location:
- Morganton, North Carolina
- Latitude:
- 35.753476987977706
- Longitude:
- -81.70172887755979
- Source:
- Children of the Struggle Project
- Source Identifier:
- mountain-view-elementary
- Type:
- place
- Format:
- image/jpg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Mountain View Elementary School", Children of the Struggle, History Museum of Burke County
- Reference Link:
- https://childrenogfthestruggle.org//items/mountain-view-elementary.html
Rights
- Rights:
- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted. For more information, please contact Morganton Public Library North Carolina Room (828) 764-9266.
- Standardized Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/