Breaking ground ceremony for the new Garnet School
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A sepia photo of a crowd of people at a public event to commemorate the beginning of construction of the new Garnet all-black school in Chestertown, Maryland. Six men wearing overcoats and hats stand in the center surrounding a shovel that has been stuck into the ground. A large crowd of children surrounds these men. circa 1947
English
original photographs
Garnet High School, African American Children
African American schools, School buildings, African American childrenGarnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882, Maryland--Kent County Chestertown
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