George Washington Carver High School

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After African American patrons campaigned for a new high school, the Chesterfield County School Board opened the consolidated George Washington Carver High School here in 1948. Carver, which replaced the old Hickory Hill and Daniel Webster Davis High Schools, was for 22 years the county's only public high school for black students. William A. Brown, Carver’s sole principal, led a dedicated faculty and staff. The building, which also housed offices for school administrators and agricultural and home economics demonstration agents, was a literary and cultural center for the African American community. Carver closed in 1970, when the county finished implementing its desegregation plan.

Department of Historic Resources, 2019

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Chesterfield County School Board Minutes. Carver High School Alumni Directory (2014). Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (Richmond, 1949). Dorothy Fuller Silvers, Chesterfield: An Old Virginia County, vol. 2 (Chesterfield Museum Committee of the Chesterfield Historical Society, 1992). Craig Kridel, Progressive Education in Black High Schools: The Secondary School Study, 1940-1946 (University of South Carolina Museum of Education, 2015). Richmond Planet, 16 Aug. 1890. Richmond Times-Dispatch, 12 Sept. 1915, 19 March 1937, 8 Feb. 1940, 28 Sept. 1945, 3 June 1947, 10 Nov. 1948, 8 Dec. 1948, 5 March 1969, 16 May 1970, 24 Sept. 1970, 11 Aug. 1985. Norfolk Journal and Guide, 21 Dec. 1940, 25 Dec. 1948. Chesterfield Observer, 5 Dec. 2018. http://chesterfieldnaacp.com/our-history/