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Olive Hill School (All Grades) Item Info
- Title:
- Olive Hill School (All Grades)
- Creator:
- Children of the Struggle Project
- Description:
- Olive Hill High School established in the 1920s served as the only secondary school available to Black students in Burke County until the mid-1960s. Operating throughout the Jim Crow era the school faced chronic underfunding; most of its equipment and materials were hand-me-downs from nearby white schools. As a result students at Olive Hill lacked many opportunities afforded elsewhere including updated textbooks adequate classroom resources and equitable academic programs. This school was later renamed to "West Concord School" in 1965 to serve as a place for 9th grade students until 1973 when Freedom High School opened. These unequal conditions were a major catalyst for the activism of the West Concord Mothers. Many of these women had children enrolled at Olive Hill and their firsthand experience with the school's disparities fueled their fight for educational justice and desegregation in Burke County.
- Subjects:
- Olive Hill School education segregation place African American community elementary middle school high school
- Location:
- Morganton, North Carolina
- Latitude:
- 35.735015
- Longitude:
- -81.690856
- Source:
- Children of the Struggle Project
- Source Identifier:
- olive-hill-school-pre-1958
- Type:
- place
- Format:
- image/jpg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Olive Hill School (All Grades)", Children of the Struggle, History Museum of Burke County
- Reference Link:
- https://childrenogfthestruggle.org//items/olive-hill-school-all-grades.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/