Project type: Education and Health, Schools
New Deal Agencies: National Youth Administration (NYA)
Started: 1937
Completed: 1938
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Description
This eight room frame building was constructed by the National Youth Administration for use by African American students in the segregated school system of Tate County, near the town of Senatobia, Mississippi. It was completed in 1938, replacing the one room shack previously used by the district.
W.P. 4656, Application # 115: (1937-38); NYA. I-A1-69″ (Series 2018)
Source notes
Series 2018-National Youth Administration Work Projects Photograph Album, 1937-1939. Mississippi Department of Archives and History Digital Archives. Retrieved from http://mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/digital_archives/series/2018/detail/3645
Project originally submitted by Susan Allen on October 5, 2014.
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