Smithville School Museum and Education Center

The Smithville School Museum and Education Center hosts all kinds
of events for the surrounding community. From 1927 until 1952, the building served as a school for African American children during the segregated Jim Crow era. It is one of nearly 5000 such school that were constructed throughout the Southern United States. Together they became known as “Rosenwald Schools,” named for the benefactor who provided matching funds for their construction. These simple, nondescript buildings have often been overlooked and many have been lost.

It features an exhibit space that calls attention to the building’s history which is being preserved by its current owners, the Montgomery County chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity – the first intercollegiate greek-letter fraternity for African American men in the United States.

www.IUL1906.org/smithvilleschool
www.heritagemontgomery.org



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