Sharptown School in Sharptown, MD
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CH_CA_2021_SC_006_039
Community Archive
A color photograph of the Sharptown School in Sharptown, MD near Rock Hall, MD. In the 1920's this elementary school succeeded the old Sharptown School (K-512) as the educational center and a social center for Rock Hall-area blacks. It is one of only two black schools in Kent County (the other was the Coleman School, K-505) built with the help of Rosenwald Fund money and at least to Rosenwald Fund specifications for school design, if not from a Rosenwald Fund plan itself. These schools, with their emphasis on spaciousness, light and ventilation, are a marked contrast to the other Kent County elementary schools for black children, which (with the exception of Garnett School in Chestertown) were minimal one-room facilities. The new Sharptown School was last used for a school in 1966, near the end of segregated schooling in Kent County. (Maryland Historical Trust Application) April 1969
English
original photographs
School buildings, Education, Elementary, Segregation in education Sharptown
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