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Bennett Grove School reveal stirs living memory, historical research
Recalls marble games, maypoles and when schools for African Americans were separate and unequal
During a Facebook live tour guided by Dr. Alvin Jackons, center left, Ozell Lawrence, 84, right, recollects his time at the original Bennett Grove one-room schoolhouse while standing in the the reconstructed version of the school at Willow Hill Heritage a
During a Facebook live tour guided by Dr. Alvin Jackon, center left, Ozell Lawrence, 84, right, recollects his time at the original Bennett Grove one-room schoolhouse while standing in the the reconstructed version of the school at Willow Hill Heritage and Renaissance Center Friday, Feb. 11.
Putting life into history, Ozell Lawrence, now 84, recollected games of marbles and a maypole from his student days at the Bennett Grove School, the last extant one-room, African American school in Bulloch County.
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