Green McAdoo Cultural Center

The Green McAdoo Cultural Center shares the compelling story of twelve courageous students who, through attending the public high school, helped propel the desegregation movement in the south. Every project detail was critical in finding the right balance between opposing forces: black and white, separation and connectivity, old and new, tragedy and triumph. The statue of the students in front of the building is based on an unforgettable photograph of them walking down the hill to school on their first day of class. The quotation on the front wall preserves words spoken in a sermon following a school bombing intended to stop segregation efforts. Fittingly, the Green McAdoo Cultural Center opened during the 50th-anniversary commemoration of the historic event.