This is transcribed in the interest of participant's genealogy, genealogy timelines, and history. It indicates when the school went from a private church to county public school, which will help when looking for family school records ---------------------------------------------------- Clarke County Democrat, Grove Hill, Alabama September 8, 1938, page 1 County Negroes to Dedicate New School The new school building for colored people, recently completed at Thomasville, will be dedicated Thursday, Sept. 22. The exercises will be held in the auditorium of the Baptist school. Dr. F. D. Patterson, president of Tuskegee Institute, will be present and will deliver the main address. Other speakers on the program will include Judge Coma Garrett, Jr., Supt. of education Dayton Robinson, and Hon. Roy W. Kimbrough, representing V. C. Wilkinson, Mayor of Thomasville. There will be other speakers on the program. The new building was made possible by PWA funds and funds from the County School Commission. Other special features of the program will be the singing of negro spirituals, which is always so much enjoyed by the white people of the South. Supt. Robinson states that the private school which was operated in Thomasville for a number of years by the churches, has been discontinued and that hereafter there will be only one school in Thomasville for the colored people. Thomasville