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Industrial High School for black students was located on 15th Street at the site of the present Central Elementary School.
The graduating class of 1946 included:
Front row: Teacher Effie Mathews, unknown, Thomas Brown, Mildred Abercrombie, Oscar…

The Jemison School was on Greensboro Avenue between 27th and 28th streets in the Rosedale area of Tuscaloosa. It was an elementary school for grades 1-6. The school used the historic Drish House for some years before moving to this new modern…

This postcard of the Stafford School, the first public school in Tuscaloosa, says, "One of our graded public schools where 535 children (whites only) go to school daily." The school was located at 2209 9th Street in Tuscaloosa.

This is a report card for Bruce Davis when he was in the 6th grade at Stafford School in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

This photo from the 1945-46 school year is not a typical photo for Stafford school classes. It is believed to have been made for a student, Talla Curtis, on her birthday and was a gift to the class from her parents. On the front row: Mildred Chism,…

The First Presbyterian Church of Tuscaloosa established in 1833 the Tuscaloosa Female Institute to educate young white women at the time when there was no public education for them. The building was located on the southwest corner of 9th Street and…

"Stillman Institute (Colored) - Tuscaloosa."

This panoramic view shows the view along the road that is now Stillman Boulevard.

Liston Hall was the first building erected on the site of the present campus of Stillman College. It was built one or two years after the land was purchased by the school in 1898 and served as the first dormitory and chapel for students. The building…

Interior shot of the Emily Estes Snedecor Hospital at Stillman College, taken in 1941.In 1930 a nurses' training school and hospital was opened at Stillman College. It had been built in 1929 using a $42,500 grant, which was the entire 1928 Woman's…

In 1930 a nurses' training school and hospital was opened at Stillman College. It had been built in 1929 using a $42,500 grant, which was the entire 1928 Woman's Auxiliary Birthday Offering of the First Presbyterian Church, Tuscaloosa. It was named…