Center for African American History, Arts, and Culture

Center for African American History, Arts, and Culture

Juanita Campbell

Quick Facts

Location:

120 York St. NE, Aiken, SC 29801

Significance:

Site of the Immanuel School, which was a site of education for African American children in and around Aiken, South Carolina from 1890 to 1930.

Designation:

Center for African American History, Art, and Culture is a part of the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network

MANAGED BY:

Center for African American History, Art, and Culture

The Center, formerly known as The Immanuel School, was built in 1889-1890, and is significant for its association with the parochial education of Black children in Aiken and surrounding South Carolina counties from 1890 until it closed in 1932. It is also a particularly rare and intact example of Late Victorian vernacular school architecture built for African American schoolchildren in the late nineteenth century South; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The facility is used as an educational resource for the surrounding community, telling the story of the African Americans who lived in Aiken and Aiken County. 

The Center for African American History, Arts, and Culture is a part of the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network.