Named after a freed slave, the J. Milton Turner School was built as part of the Kirkwood School district in Meacham Park, a predominantly African American area that was only later annexed into the City of Kirkwood (many of us know how that turned out).
Of course, the school was segregated at the time of its construction in 1924.
There was a later addition in 1948, and while the school ceased to function as an educational building after desegregation, it looks to have been renovated and is in great shape today.
According to Google Maps, it is still owned by Kirkwood Public Schools, and may function as an administrative building.
I remember hearing the rumors, but never saw it. Unfortunately middle class blacks in the 1960s keep their children occupied in a false environment that was filled with “quiet” racism and resentment from Caucasians who detested “upwardly mobile” black families.
What rumors are you referring to?
Sounds like the typical racist talking points you’re spewing. The only Caucasians that detest “upwardly mobile” black families are White Democrats… just like the ones Blacks have been guilted into voting for by Democrats and their own churches since The Civil Rights Movement… The Civil Rights Movement destroyed the Black family and did so by rewarding single motherhood and replacing the black father figure with government. The Democrat Party uses Black Americans. Ask yourself these two things –
1) Why do illegal immigrants get preferential treatment over Blacks from the Democrats?
2) Where am I wrong?
Correction to your post: This school was not closed after the 1948 segregation ruling. It served as a neighborhood school until the mid-1970s, when it was closed after a federal court ruling aimed to stop racial isolation in the district. A few years ago the district bought back the building and turned it into the district’s administrative center.