UF Museum Studies Graduate Students Develop Exhibit for Local Schools
2011
Dr. Willumson’s Exhibition Seminar students assisted the Lincoln High School alumni in memorializing Gainesville’s African-American high school. LHS was Gainesville’s segregated African-American school until a court order forced the integration of Gainesville schools. Shut down by the school board in the middle of the year, LHS’s students were bused to Gainesville HS. Three years later, the building that was LHS re-opened as Lincoln Middle School. To ensure the memory of their school is never forgotten, the group of museum studies students worked with LHS Alumni Committee to design the interior and exhibition space of the Memorial Room at Lincoln Middle.