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“We are thrilled to be working with the Scrabble School Preservation Foundation on this project,” said Scot French, principal investigator and codirector of the Center for the Study of Local Knowledge.
“Tbgether, we can preserve the living memory of the old Scrabble School and write the next chapter of its remarkable history.”
Research staff from the Center will be present to record oral histories and to begin to explore the role of Scrabble School within the broader context of African-American education in Virginia after the First World War. “Rosenwald Schools were not just school buildings, but almost always centers of African-American life,” said Craig Barton, a professor of architecture at the University of Virginia whose practice focuses on assisting African-American communities to preserve and interpret their significant cultural resources. “They were essentially civic buildings for a community that didn’t have access to the typical civic realm.” Professor Barton, who will also be present on October 29, led his senior architecture students in a 2004 project to develop design strategies for the revitalization of a Rosenwald School in Emporia, Virginia.
History
Scrabble School, built in 1921 and unused since 1967, is one of over 5,000 schools for African-American children
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