This photograph shows Henry McNeal Turner High School in Atlanta, GA in 2015. Though it is not open during this time, at its height, it was the most prestigious black high school in the city.
Seen here is a group of students at the Booker T. Washington High School in the 1950s. The results of a writing contest is being announced by one of the teachers outside of the school building.
On February 1, 1806, the University of Georgia’s first acting president, Josiah Meigs, reported in the Augusta Chronicle that construction of the university’s new building has finished. He reports on the accommodations of the new building: its…