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Profile: Hart County

Year Minimum Foundation building program completed
1955.

Hart County Training received a new building, consolidating all Black schools in the county.

The Nov. 21, 1952 Hartwell Sun said an African American elementary school was supposed to be built at Flat Rock, but that did not happen, even as the Dec. 4, 1952 Sun said a site had even been purchased for said school. Flat Rock had been removed from the list of Hart projects by July 1953.

Year of total integration
1970.

Hart ran afoul of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare over the lack of progress in desegregation.

Known high schools
  • Hart County Training (Hartwell)

Known schools
  • 1922-23: Hartwell Colored
  • 1944-45: Bowersville, Brown Grove, Colored Zion, Flat Rock, Hart County Training, Mt. View, New Hope, New Light, Sanders Grove, Sardis, Shilo, St. James, St. John, Teasley Grove, Union Bush, Vanna
  • 1950-51: Hart County Training
  • 1952-53: Flat Rock, Hart County Training, Saint John, Sardis; "Lunchrooms are operated in all of the white and four of the Negro schools." (The Hartwell Sun, 12/19/52)
The Georgia Department of Education begins publishing a list of schools in 1956-57.
  • 1956-57: Hart County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1957-58: Hart County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1958-59: Hart County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1959-60: Hart County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1960-61: Hart County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1961-62: Hart County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1962-63: Hart County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1963-64: Hart County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1964-65: Hart County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1965-66: Hart County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1966-67: Hart County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1967-68: Hart County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1968-69: Hart County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1969-70: Hart County Training (grades 1-12)
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