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Interior of a one-room Black schoolhouse with a furnace at the center of the room
Credit: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division
Original Author: Unknown
Created: Sept. 13, 1916
Medium: Photograph

Interior of a One-Room Black School

A Black teacher stands at the back of her classroom in Anthoston, Kentucky in this 1916 photograph. The students in the classroom vary in ages, but all them are barefoot.

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