Saving a school: Howard Academy Field Day

Ashley Hunter, ECB Publishing, Inc. The third annual Howard Academy Field Day took place on Saturday, May 5 at the Historic Howard Academy school grounds. Howard Academy was built in 1936 to provide a place for African American students, grades one through twelve, to be consolidated into one schoolhouse. In 1940, the original schoolhouse became an elementary school, and a new second building was constructed as the Howard Academy High School. Located on Chestnut Street, Howard Academy was t