Episode 36: The Washington School
Guest: Mr. Howard Pruitt and Mrs. Alice Smith
Dewhitt has a social justice conversation with two alumni of the Washington Negro School located in Monroe City, Missouri, Mrs. Alice Smith, and Mr. Howard Pruitt. The Washington School is on the National Register for Historic Places. To qualify, properties eligible for listing include buildings, districts, sites, structures, and objects that are significant to local, state, or national history because of the integrity of their location, design, setting, materials, feeling, and association. Dewhitt, Howard, and Alice discuss the following:
- Alice and Howard’s careers
- Advice for high school and college students
- FDR’s 1933 New Deal
- Works Project Administration (Labor Focus)
- Public Works Administration (Grant and Loans)
- What the Washington School was like
- What the Washington School means to them
- The owner of the school
- The degradation of the school
- Solutions for the problem
- https://mostateparks.com/sites/mostateparks/files/Washington%20School.pdf
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