1955 Academy Bugle [cover title]

[Enterprise, Alabama, 1955. Very good.. [32]pp. Original red wrappers decoratively stamped in gilt on front cover, stapled. Minor rubbing along spine. A seemingly unrecorded yearbook for a segregated African American elementary school in Alabama. Enterprise Academy taught first through sixth grade to the African American community in Enterprise, Alabama (near Dothan in the southern portion of the state). Coffee County Training School opened in 1928 after Alabama finally began supporting public education for African Americans. Elementary students were moved to Enterprise Academy in 1947. The present work pictures the principal, staff, teachers, and students (truncated) at Enterprise; fifty-seven sixth graders are pictured individually. Fourth and fifth grades are each pictured in two group photos; second and third grades in three group photos each, and first in four group photos. The school appears to have had no kindergarten, though the present yearbook also pictures the school's Student Council, cheerleaders, choir, and Boy Scouts. We could locate no other examples of this or any other yearbook for Enterprise Academy. (Inventory #: 4097)