Kent County’s African American Schoolhouse Museum
Former students recall days spent in a historic one-room schoolhouse.

By Mary K. Zajac
Photographs by Kirsten Beckerman

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Kent County’s African American Schoolhouse Museum
Former students recall days spent in a historic one-room schoolhouse.
For more than 50 years, African-Americans attended Kent County’s one-room Worton Point Colored School No. 2. Now a museum, its former students share memories of attending a segregated school without indoor plumbing or running water. Despite these shortcomings, many say it was the… continued
Kent County’s African American Schoolhouse Museum





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