Jefferson Elementary School
Jefferson Elementary School
“We felt like a unit. I really felt like it was a wonderful experience for me.”
Corlis Turner Anderson
“I had never been in a situation before where I was the only Black in the classroom.”
Corlis Turner Anderson
David Sloan
“We had a lot of pride at Jefferson.”
James Bryant
“Teachers expected you to excel, and teachers were part of the community.”
James Bryant
“If this thing is going to work, then we had to be not as good as, but we had to be better.”
Frankie Allen
“It was a very nice school, and I liked Jefferson School.”
Mary Johnson
“We became the Cox’s Row Red Devils. We had our own team.”
William Redd
“The change from Greenbrier to Jefferson widened the range of people that I had encountered.”