Group picture of children at Five Row School, circa 1920

Children of Five Row School with Ms. Kerns and Ms. Webster standing in back row

Datecirca 1920

MediumPhotograph

DimensionsOverall: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.32 cm.)

Credit LineReynolda House Museum of American Art

CopyrightPublic Domain

Object number20-1102-08

Description“Well, there were two schools…the white children went there, but we had the same they had… And we all played together because there wasn’t nobody else to play with. They’d play with us, we’d play with them. We didn’t go to the same school, but we had the same books, she furnished all the books, paper and everything, you went to school, it didn’t rain or snow and I could walk to school. The school was right in the community.” – Harvey Miller

“We had history, geography, spelling, arithmetic, and of course we had this Palmer writing…And we had what you call hygiene and health. It was very hard; our books didn’t have any pictures.” – Harvey Miller

ProvenanceMaterial gathered for "Spirit of Reynolda: African American Contributions, 1912-1962" exhibition at Reynolda House Museum of American Art, 1993. Image identified and copy print gifted by Eugenia Parent.
Exhibition History1993
Spirit of Reynolda: African American Contributions, 1912-1962
Reynolda House Museum of American Art
Published ReferencesMillhouse, Barbara Babcock, Reynolda: 1906-1924 (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2011), page 115.

Gillespie, Michele, Katharine and R. J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South (Athens, GA: University of George Press, 2012).

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