2016 Juneteenth
Celebration
2019
June 18th - 23rd
All events are free and open to the community.
For questions, email Summerhillheritage@gmail.com.
Visit our website for a full schedule of events at www.SummerHillHeritageGroup.org
Juneteenth 2019 Schedule
Tuesday, June 18th:
Juneteenth Proclamation Signing, Location: Frank Moore Administration and Judicial Center (new courthouse), Commissioners Conference Room, 10am
Wednesday, June 19th:
Community Bible Study with Dr. Lugenia Johnson, St. Luke A.M.E. - Location: Summer Hill Complex, 6pm-8pm
Thursday, June 20th:
African American Downtown Historic Walking Tour with Etowah Bush School, Location: Carfersville Train Depot,
7 Friendship Plaza, Warn & 2pm
Thursday, June 20th:
The State of the Black Family Townhall Discussion: Discovering the strengths and vulnerabilities of the Black Family with Reverend John Lampley, Mt. Zion Baptist, Location: Summer Hill Complex, 6pm-8pm
Friday, June 21st:
Education & Career Fair with Opening Keynote by Gloria Calhoun, Harvesting Scholars, Location: Aubrey Street Gymnasium, 4pm-7pm
Saturday, June 22nd:
Summer Hill Clean Up & Flower Planting, Location: Summer Hill Complex, 8 am- 11am
Saturday, June 22nd:
Movie on the Green: The Best of Enemies,
Location: Summer Hill Complex, 8pm- 10pm
The Summerhill Heritage Group Presents - JUNETEENTH 2019
Juneteenth is the African American celebration of freedom from slavery in the American South.
Join us as we reminisce on the past, discuss the present, and contemplate on the future.
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Summer Hill Foundation is:
54870
Please help the Summer Hill Foundation by joining the Kroger Rewards Program. . . it is free to join and free for you to help us.
The School
Established by Ronald Johnson in 1889, Summer Hill School was a wood framed Rosenwald structure of white clapboard with only a few rooms. Summer Hill School opened its doors with only 55 students from grades one 1 - 8
After the higher grades were added, the lower grades remained in the old building and grades 9-12 were moved to the new building at the bottom of the hill which was named Summer Hill High School. Summer Hill High School was the only high school that blacks could attend during this period in Bartow County. Renovated and reopened to the public, the Summer Hill Complex now has a museum.
The Community
The Summer Hill community included black entrepreneurs and businesses, social and civic organizations, the Summer Hill PTA, churches and Slab Stadium which hosted black baseball teams and served as a business anchor to the community.
The Experience
The Students mostly learned from the worn out books they could not take home to study. Jim Crow laws forced blacks to live "behind the veil" in the words of W.E.B. Du Bois and Civil Rights was mostly a civil fight. But through it all, this village - Summer Hill - raised happy, intelligent and culturally diverse people who have a rich history to tell.