Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools at 100

In honor of 100 years of public schools in Chapel Hill, a history of the school system in four short videos.

The Beginning.

The Rise of African-American Schools.

Desegregation.

Unprecedented Growth.

Somewhat related:

Sumner Elementary School, a National Historic Landmark that helped launch the nation's Civil Rights Movement as one of the schools at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court's (1954) ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, presently sits in a deteriorated and threatened state. Vacant since 1996, the school suffers from deferred maintenance and has sustained significant damage from water infiltration, neglect and vandalism. As current problems remain unaddressed and damage worsens, this national icon is being allowed to deteriorate even further and resources have not been allocated to stem this tide.

The school is on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's list of 11 most endangered properties for 2008.