September 16, 2009

In 1920, Floyd Brown, a Tuskegee Institute graduate, established Fargo Agricultural School near Brinkley (Monroe County). A private residential school for African-American students, the school offered “training for the head, hands and heart” and a high school education for hundreds of black students for almost thirty years. Students and friends are shown here gathered in front of the first building. Today, a small museum preserving the school’s history is located at the former site of the school.