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Series II: George Washington Carver School Photographs and Yearbooks
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The "Glory in the Grove" photographs depict the life of the students at the George Washington Carver schools form 1953 to 1965 during the time of segregation. When Bob Simms joined the Carver faculty as chairman of the physical education department in 1953, he started taking photographs of the students, athletics, and school and civic activities in an effort to document the life at a segregated school. Later, after school desegregation, these pictures served as a visual documentation of the rich traditions, successes and glories of this segregated school, the students and the community. On land donated by Coral Gables developer George Merrick in 1924, the Dade County Training School served black students from throughout the Miami area at the elementary and juniro high school levels. A student of george Washington Carver's and a graduate of the Tuskegee Institute, Mrs. Frances Tucker became principal of the school in 1929. In 1934, one high school class was added to the school each year, When Dr. Carver died in 1942, the school was renamed in his honor. Today the George Washington Carver Middle School is a magnet school in international education.