The building is 100 years old. Its bricks and floors were made by students at Tuskegee Institute.
It was the largest Rosenwald School in Elmore County. Its displays contain local Black history. It houses the largest collection of Black obituaries in one place in the Deep South outside Atlanta. It is home to a community lynching documentation project.
PHOTOS: Elmore County Black History Museum
Cliff Williams / TPI Elmore County Black History Museum board member Yvonne Saxon shows fourth graders some of the tools used for making clothing. The display is one of many in the museum show life of Black residents decades ago in Elmore County.
PHOTOS: Elmore County Black History Museum
Cliff Williams / TPI Elmore County Black History Museum curator Bille Rawls, left, speaks with fourth graders in the museum about what the building once was. The Elmore County Training School was opened 100 years ago to educate Black children in the area.
PHOTOS: Elmore County Black History Museum
Cliff Williams / TPI Elmore County fourth graders learned quilts are still made by a group that meets regularly at the Elmore County Black History Museum. The group sits and chats while sewing much like their ancestors did.
PHOTOS: Elmore County Black History Museum
Cliff Williams / TPI A map of lynchings in Elmore County is displayed in the Elmore County Black History Museum. The map is a project of University of Alabama students who are researching those who lost their lives to lynchings.
PHOTOS: Elmore County Black History Museum
Cliff Williams / TPI Elmore County Black History Museum curator Bille Rawls, left, speaks with fourth graders in the museum about what the building once was. The Elmore County Training School was opened 100 years ago to educate Black children in the area.
PHOTOS: Elmore County Black History Museum
PHOTOS: Elmore County Black History Museum
Cliff Williams / TPI Elmore County Black History Museum board member Yvonne Saxon shows fourth graders some of the tools used for making clothing. The display is one of many in the museum show life of Black residents decades ago in Elmore County.
PHOTOS: Elmore County Black History Museum
Cliff Williams / TPI Elmore County Black History Museum curator Bille Rawls, left, speaks with fourth graders in the museum about what the building once was. The Elmore County Training School was opened 100 years ago to educate Black children in the area.
PHOTOS: Elmore County Black History Museum
Cliff Williams / TPI Elmore County fourth graders learned quilts are still made by a group that meets regularly at the Elmore County Black History Museum. The group sits and chats while sewing much like their ancestors did.
PHOTOS: Elmore County Black History Museum
Cliff Williams / TPI A map of lynchings in Elmore County is displayed in the Elmore County Black History Museum. The map is a project of University of Alabama students who are researching those who lost their lives to lynchings.
PHOTOS: Elmore County Black History Museum
Cliff Williams / TPI Elmore County Black History Museum curator Bille Rawls, left, speaks with fourth graders in the museum about what the building once was. The Elmore County Training School was opened 100 years ago to educate Black children in the area.
