- City:
- Boonville, MO
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
Constructed by the WPA in 1939. This was a historically black school, until desegregation in 1959. It was subsequently used as a warehouse and is currently occupied by the Concerned Citizens for the Black Community in Boonville.
Source notes
https://www.boonvilledailynews.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130518964/-1/video?rssfeed=true#axzz2XOWk02lW www.kchsoc.org/schools/black_schools_missouri.pdfSite originally submitted by Charles Swaney on June 26, 2013.
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Bethany Moore
Brett Rogers
You should put this Sumner Public School on the National Register. I am doing research into the Little Dixie area and African-American history in central Missouri and I am using the National Register to gather resources. The second Sumner School on Spruce Street is listed but for some reason this building is not.
Sumner School was included in a Missouri SHPO historic architecture survey. See: “African American Schools in Rural and Small Town Missouri: The Missouri River Valley,” June 1999,
Project No. 29-98-13128-476: https://dnr.mo.gov/shpo/survey/SWAS022-S.pdf, II-7, pp. 38-43.