Vienna High and Industrial School - A Georgia Equalization School - 46-1 - Vienna, GA
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N 32° 05.590 W 083° 46.970
17S E 237367 N 3554152
Located on Hawkinsville Road (GA 27) just north of GA 215, Vienna
Waymark Code: WM14RNW
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 08/16/2021
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Established in 1959, Vienna High and Industrial School was a consolidated school for African Americans during segregation. As part of Georgia's massive resistance to federally mandated school integration, politicians and school officials sought to address the blatant geographic and racial disparities in education by constructing hundreds of new (but still segregated) school across the state during the 1950s - 60s. Known as "equalization" schools, they were often among the fist modern buildings in rural areas and became centers of African-American community life. With forced integration in place statewide by 1970, many of these new schools were abandoned or repurposed with their students moving to the formerly all-white schools. Vienna was unusual in that it became the integrated Vienna High School with Dr. Napoleon Williams, the head of the former African-American school, as its principal. The school later served as Vienna Elementary until its closure in 2004.
Type of Marker: Building
Marker #: 46-1
Date: 2014
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Society, City of Vienna, Vienna Historic Preservation Committee, Georgia Natural Resources Foundation
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