McGehee Colored School

McGehee Colored School, the first school for Black students in McGehee (Desha County); 1917.

Single story brick building next to road two entrances on front and side four multi paneled windows three chimneys across front behind multiple small trees and telephone line

“McGehee Colored School.” Julius Rosenwald Fund Archives, Rural School Database. John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, Special Collections, Fisk University. http://rosenwald.fisk.edu/

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