Bowdry School Building – Senatobia MS

City:
Senatobia, MS

Site Type:
Education and Health, Schools

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, National Youth Administration (NYA)

Started:
1937

Completed:
1938

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 https://mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/digital_archives/series/2018/detail/3645

Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on October 5, 2014.

Location Info


No exact location known
Senatobia, MS 38668
Tate County

Coordinates: 34.6176032, -89.96870109999998

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