Oldest schoolhouse for Black children in US moved to museum
By Ben Finley | The Associated Press The Bray School is aligned with a set foundation at its new location in Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Va. on
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By Ben Finley | The Associated Press The Bray School is aligned with a set foundation at its new location in Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Va. on
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A building believed to be the oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children in the U.S. has been moved to Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia
For historians and descendants alike, the Bray School contradicts the belief that all enslaved Americans were uneducated. “Everything that I learned about my ancestors was wrong,”
WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia: A building believed to be the oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children in the US was hoisted onto a flatbed truck and moved a half-mile Friday to Colonial Williamsburg, a Virginia museum that continues to expand its emphasis on African American history. Built 25 years before the American Revolution, the original structure stood near the college