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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: July 6, 2019
Caption: Mt. Gap Colored School, 1940
Additional Description: Caption: Children in Loudoun's segregated schools had fewer resources than the schools for white children. Despite the unequal treatment, students fondly remembered their dedicated teachers, such as Bushrod W. Murray, Elizabeth Johnson, and Janie Stewart Redwood. The school closed in 1955. Image courtesy of Loudoun Public Schools Student Records Department.
Submitted: July 18, 2019, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p484571
File Size: 4.009 Megabytes

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