Title	Kansas Rosenwald School: interior wall
Creator(s)	West, Carroll Van, photographer
Date	2014
Coverage	2010-2019
Property name	Kansas Rosenwald School
Property type	School
Community Name	Bethpage, Sumner County, TN
Description	Color photograph of an interior wall at Kansas Rosenwald School. The footprint of the former stage is visible along the classroom/kitchen wall and east wall. Windows missing glass have been boarded over.
Historical Notes	The Kansas Rosenwald School is located on the Mt. Zion Baptist Church property in Sumner County, Tennessee. The Kansas community is so named after a group of African Americans migrated west from Tennessee and other parts of the South to the state of Kansas. The school was built in 1923 on property just off Kansas Lane, an historic road—an old buffalo trail—that leads to Highway 31. Before the construction of the Rosenwald School, Mt. Zion Baptist Church functioned as both a church and school. After the Rosenwald School was built, the church was still affiliated with the school. The church used the school building as a fellowship hall until the 1980s. In the spring of 2014, the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation conducted a preliminary preservation assessment for the Kansas Rosenwald School.
Collection Name	Rosenwald Schools
Subject-LCSH	Julius Rosenwald Fund -- Buildings African American schools -- Tennessee
Subject-AAT	Schools Stages Interior walls
Subject-TGM	Schools
Type	Still image
Genre	Photograph
Medium	Computer disk
Processing notes	Digital files retrieved from a flashdrive
Copyright status	Copyright of the creator. Reproduced with permission
Contributing Institution	Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University
Conditions for use	Credit Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University Reproduction permitted for non-profit educational and research purposes only
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University

Kansas Rosenwald School: interior wall

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