The Willow Hill Heritage and Renaissance Center

Education for Blacks in South Georgia: Past, Present & Future The link to register is below: GeorgiaSouthern.edu/CASregistration

We have great news! The Willow Hill Heritage and Renaissance Center received a grant from @USIMLS in the amount of $109,420.00! We are one of 68 recipients; there were 1,700 applications. This two-year grant will expand internet access and improve educational opportunities for children in Bulloch County, Georgia, who are learning at home during the COVID-19 pandemic and whose families have limited or no access to broadband internet service or digital devices. Read more: https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/cagml-248065-omls-20 #IMLSGrant. We are so excited to receive this great honor!

Click the link and register. Virtal Event start time today at 5:00PM. https://www.telfair.org/event/virtual-juneteenth-lecture/ Stated from the website, "Join speakers Vaughnette Goode-Walker (historian, operator of Footprints of Savannah, museum director) and Dr. Alvin Jackson (co-founder and President, Willow Hill Heritage and Renaissance Center) for Telfair Museums’ Virtual Juneteenth Lecture."

Please join us today Saturday, June 6th, as we visit the historic Miller Grove Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery in Bulloch County Georgia. Oral historian, Dr. Alvin Jackson, will tell the stories of the formerly enslaved, soldiers, teachers, ministers and many others buried in these hollowed grounds. This is the burial ground for the Hall, Lundy, Allen, Owens, and Willis families. Over 15 soldiers of World War I and II are buried there. Frank Wilson, a Union Soldier who fought during the Civil War, lays among them. Miller Grove Church was organized 15 years after the Civil War in 1885. Miller Grove Cemetery has over 230 burials.

We will see you all soon at 9 AM to continue our series "If These Cemeteries Could Talk," at Miller Grove Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery. Please share our video.

The Story of the Statesboro High and Industrial School. 2/2

The Story of the Statesboro High and Industrial School.

Click the clink below if interested in purchasing our book "Defining their Destiny The Story of the Willow Hill School." By F. Erik Brooks and Forwared by Alvin D. Jackson, M.D. Support Us Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center https://www.willowhillheritage.org/support

We will repost later today an updated video of,The Story of the Statesboro High and Industrial School. Stay tuned! Come visit us www.willowhillheritage.org.