Project type: Education and Health, Schools
Completed: 1941
Quality of Information: Very Good
Marked:
No
Site Survival: No Longer Extant
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Description
The former vocational building for Salem High School for African Americans was a pier-and-beam wooden building with a pent awning over the double door entrance. It was constructed by the National Youth Administration (NYA) and contained a brick chimney, likely fitted for a wood stove vent. Historic photographs clearly indicate the NYA marker embedded in the brick chimney located next to the entrance doors. The building is no longer extant.
Source notes
Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Historic Resources Inventory. Retrieved from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?view=architectural Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Series 1513-School Photograph Scrapbooks, School Photographs (Mississippi) 1920s-1980s. Item 518. Retrieved from https://mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/digital_archives/series/schoolphotographs/detail/162836 Phay, J. H. (1956). University of Mississippi Bureau of Educational Research, University of Mississippi Digital Collections, Archives and Special Collections. Old Salem High School and Shop. Retrieved from https://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/segregation/id/3386/rec/17
Project originally submitted by Susan Allen on November 19, 2015.
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