Around the Banks

As the month of February is flying by and February is Black History Month, I am going to include some memories here of the rich African American Heritage of southern Hamilton County. Until I was in seventh grade, the schools, along with most social services, were segregated in our part of the world. That changed in school in the year 1970-71 when the all-Black school, Carver Elementary, was closed, and African American students came over to South Hamilton Elementary, effectively doubling the school population. Some early African American educators included the late E.W. Graham, Sadie Turner, Sallie Reddick, Rosa Roundtree, Dorothy L. Bryant, Mary McKire, Ruby Williams, Eleanor Lumpkin