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Profile: Harris County

Year Minimum Foundation building program completed
1955 and c. 1956.

Harris County had already built several Black schools that opened in 1952 at Hamilton, Chipley (a town now known as Pine Mountain), Cataula, Whitesville and Waverly Hall. The Hamilton site was all-grades Carver.

White schools consolidated at Harris County in 1955. Later that year, the system was taking bids to build an addition and gymnasium at Carver.

The 1952 schools would have been under a local bond issue as Minimum Foundation money was yet to be at the stage to build any schools in the state. Since it was not built by the school, it was not to the same standards at what the state would soon be doing.

The Sept. 11, 1952 Harris County Journal had a prime example of how, while Harris was ahead of their school system peers, the local funding still lacked plenty:

"Negro citizens of Harris County have raised over three thousand dollars and are still at work getting funds to equip the kitchens and lunchrooms in the new schools, now under construction, according to an announcement by Zade Kenimer, Superintendent of Harris County Schools."

Year of total integration
1970.

Like just about everywhere, Carver lost its identity in complete desegregation. Black citizens begged for it to stay instead of becoming what it became, Harris County Junior High. The Feb. 19, 1970 Harris County Journal reported that 40 parents and students attended a board of education meeting to ask, but the board turned them down.

Known high schools
  • Carver (Hamilton)

Known schools
  • 1919-20: 42 schools (01/23/20 The Hamilton Journal)
  • 1950-51: Chipley; 17 schools (04/12/1951 Harris County Journal)
  • 1951-52: Ebenezer Junior High (Chipley)
  • 1952-53: Ebenezer Junior High Schools sold in 1953: Ashford, Brakefield, Central (also known as Ellerslie), Clowers, Hamilton, Longstreet, Providence, Shiloh, Turrentine, Waverly Hall, Whitesville
  • 1953-54: Cataula, Chipley, Harris County Consolidated Negro High, Waverly Hall; Five schools in county (12/31/53 Harris County Journal)
  • 1954-55: Carver, Dunbar, Luther Laney
  • 1962-63: Carver (927 students), Dunbar (231), Johnson (166), Laney (436), Thomas (213) (Harris County Journal, 09/06/1962)
The Georgia Department of Education begins publishing a list of schools in 1956-57.
  • 1956-57: Carver Elementary & High (grades 1-12), Dunbar (1-7), Johnson (1-7), Laney (1-8), Thomas (1-8)
  • 1957-58: Carver (grades 1-12), Dunbar (1-7), Johnson (1-7), Laney (1-8), Thomas (1-7)
  • 1958-59: Carver (grades 1-12), Dunbar (1-7), Johnson (1-7), Laney (1-8), Thomas (1-7)
  • 1959-60: Carver (grades 1-12), Dunbar (1-7), Johnson (1-7), Laney (1-8), Thomas (1-7)
  • 1960-61: Carver (grades 1-12), Dunbar (1-7), Johnson (1-7), Laney (1-8), Thomas (1-7)
  • 1961-62: Carver (grades 1-12), Dunbar (1-7), Johnson (1-7), Laney (1-8), Thomas (1-7)
  • 1962-63: Carver (grades 1-12), Dunbar (1-7), Johnson (1-7), Laney (1-8), Thomas (1-7)
  • 1963-64: Carver (grades 1-12), Dunbar (1-7), Johnson (1-7), Laney (1-8), Thomas (1-7)
  • 1964-65: Carver (grades 1-12), Dunbar (1-7), Johnson (1-7), Laney (1-8), Thomas (1-7)
  • 1965-66: Carver (grades 1-12), Dunbar (1-7), Johnson (1-7), Laney (1-8), Thomas (1-7)
  • 1966-67: Carver Elementary (grades 1-7), Carver High (1-12), Dunbar (1-7), Johnson (1-7), Laney (1-8), Thomas (1-7)
  • 1967-68: Carver Elementary (grades 1-7), Carver High (1-12), Dunbar (1-7), Johnson (1-7), Laney (1-8), Thomas (1-7)
  • 1968-69: Carver Elementary (grades 1-7), Carver High (1-12), Dunbar (1-7), Johnson (1-7), Laney (1-8), Thomas (1-7)
  • 1969-70: Carver Elementary (grades 1-7), Carver High (1-12), Johnson-Dunbar (1-7), Laney (1-8), Thomas (1-7)
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