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Middle #Tennessee State #University #histodons assist the #AfricanAmerican community in #Murfreesboro preserve the #history of the Cemetery School in a museum. The segregated school was created for the #education of children of former #slaves who were hired to bury #Union Army casualties, including those killed during the #CivilWar Battle of Stones River that occurred nearby.
Main Street Media of Tennessee - · MTSU helps Cemetery School take on new role as Black museum - Main Street Media of TennesseeMiddle Tennessee State University’s Center for Historic Preservation is working with alumnus and retired administrator Vincent Windrow and the Friends of Cemetery School in Murfreesboro to help preserve one of the state’s remaining Black schools. “There so few surviving examples of segregated schools built in the rural South. At one time there were thousands of them. Rutherford County has one <a href="https://mainstreetmediatn.com/articles/murfreesboropost/mtsu-helps-cemetery-school-take-on-new-role-as-black-museum/">[…]</a>