calsfoundation@cals.org
October 6, 2009
The Consolidated White River Academy was founded in Brinkley (Monroe County) in the late 1800s when a group of concerned citizens became determined to offer young African Americans an opportunity to obtain a full high-school education. When many of the same opportunities began to be offered in the public schools, the academy closed in 1950. Shown here are students apparently posing with three football players in 1939.