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- Booker T. Washington, 1856-1915
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- Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn
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- Harvey Firestone Sr., Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, Jr., E.W. Grove, Henry Ford and Fred Seeley at the Grove Park Inn.
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- The school in 2014
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- The school was used as a tobacco barn.
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- Joe Anderson Memorial
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- Julius Rosenwald and Berry O’Kelly visit a NC Rosenwald School. Photo Courtesy of the University of Virginia Library.
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- Julius Rosenwald, 1862-1932
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- Mt. Olive Church in Mars Hill
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- Mrs. Gertrude Bruton, shown here in 2013 at age 93, attended the Long Ridge Colored School. Her daughter, Oralene Simmons (R), attended the Rosenwald School. Both are descendants of Joe Anderson.
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- The Mars Hill Rosenwald school was built in 1928.
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- The restored Ridgeley Rosenwald School, located in Maryland.
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- Rosenwald A&M School classroom in Tallahassee, Florida. Jackson Davis, 1923
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- The school in 2011
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- John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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- Painting by Charity Ray of the historic school.
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- Jazz legends, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, and Louis Armstrong.
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- The Strayhorn family.
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- Mars Hill native Viola King Barnette, a domestic worker whose son Herbert attended the Long Ridge School, wrote the North Carolina Department of Education to ask that schoolchildren from the Madison County school got to go to high school, asking him to send them to Asheville’s Stephens-Lee after 8th grade.
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- Effie Griffon on porch, Johnny Ray & Margaret Barnette, Manuel Briscoe & Frances McDowell.
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- Augusta Briscoe Ray, mother of Charity Ray and Dorothy Coone, attended the Long Ridge Colored School.
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- Children in the Long Ridge community.
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- Students at the Long Ridge School
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- Miss Wilson, teacher
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- Miss Owens, teacher
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- Effie Coone, granddaughter of Joseph Anderson.
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- Community at the Long Ridge School
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- Students at the Long Ridge School
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- Plans for restoring the historic Anderson Rosenwald School provided by Architect Scott Donald of Padgett & Freeman Architects.
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- Spelling artifact found at the school.
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- Oralene Simmons, great, great granddaughter of Joe Anderson.
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- Mars Hill College, 1909
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- Interior of the school 2022
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- The Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School, 2019.
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- The Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School, spring 2022.
