A historic marker identifying the site of the now defunct two-room wood schoolhouse that served Black elementary school students in the nation’s pre-integration era was unveiled in Ariton Thursday afternoon.
Michelle Mann ARITON - On the site of the Ariton High School Purple Cats’ baseball field once sat a two-room wood schoolhouse that served Black elementary school students during the segregation era.
“It also serves as a very important reminder that our education system was not ‘separate but equal’ and this will help us remember the struggles of so many who worked hard and fought to make sure the sins of segregation were remedied and to know that those struggles were worth it,” Baker said.
Former elementary school students Ben Key and Robert Thomas were among those present at Thursday’s ceremony. “If you talk to younger people, they don’t even know a school was here,” said Key as he watched crowds assemble at the ball field in advance of the Ariton versus Headland baseball game held after the ceremony.
“We have so many things in common, especially our love for this community,” said Baker about Gertrude Miller. “She was concerned that the history of this property would be lost and forgotten, and she asked me to place a marker on the property so visitors and community would know the history.
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