Courtesy photoPictured at the unveiling of the Rosenwald School historical marker are (from left) Alvenice Brown, Lemuel Walls of Flint, Mich., R.C. Anderson, Russell Johnson, Mayor Kelvin Buck and Curtis Hubbard.
Courtesy photoThe old gymnasium at Sims School was named in honor of the late Jesse L. Jackson, science teacher, bus driver, barber, tax preparer, gardener, ballgame official, scout leader and Little League coach. He mentored four generations. A quote, “A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove…but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.” Some of his family members are pictured in front of the Jesse L. Jackson Community Center.
Courtesy photoShown are members of the Rosenwald High School Class of 1955 – Juanita McGee, Loretia Crump, Rosie Lee Nabors, Annie Pearl Miller, Ceonia McKinney, Zannie Mae Powell, Bessie Lee Sledge, Margaret Thompson, Celestine Boone, Noble Shuford, Eldridge Walker, Bessie Lavurn Marion, Margaret Juanita Miller, Arlita Hicks, Lemuel Walls, Vallena Burton, Annie Bernice Holland and sponsor William F. Oliver. Principal W.T. Sims is not pictured.
Photo by Sue WatsonPictured with some of the pictorial tributes to principals on display in the library at the old Sims School are (from left) Mayor Kelvin Buck and Russell and Johnnie Johnson.
Courtesy photoFaith High School building
Courtesy photoFrom left are Florentine Walton Evans, Charles Terry (in back), and Belinda Sims Hollowell, great-neice of W.T. Sims.
Project preserves history of schools
Wed, 09/11/2019 - 6:21pm
It has been a labor of love that will last many, many years.
