BACK TO SCHOOL, A HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN COLUMBUS
“There were charm and romance and an emphasis on the culture in the old private schools and colleges of the first thirty years, but there was something tremendously dynamic in the breath-taking growth and practical application of education in Columbus in the last eighty-three.
These years of transcendent success of the Public School system, which now supplies opportunities for music, dramatics, art, athletics, technological and manual training, domestic science, and commercial courses, as well as classical studies, are filled to the brim with the dreams of the pioneers, intent upon making a better place in which to live.”
–Etta Worsley Blanchard, Columbus on the Chattahoochee, 1951
This exhibit takes you on the journey of education in Columbus, from the early days of private education to the creation of the Public School system through desegregation and celebrating our newest educational institutions. It spotlights individuals who were education champions and the schools many of us hold so dear.
Our exhibit is based on extensive research, drawing from authoritative sources such as, ‘A History of Public Education in Muscogee County and the City of Columbus, Georgia’ by Dr. Katherine H. Mahan and William C. Woodall, ‘The Long and Winding Road: School Desegregation in Columbus, Georgia’ by Dr. Virginia E. Causey, and ‘Columbus on the Chattahoochee’ by Etta Blanchard Worsley.
