S.C. Abrams High School

Fluvanna County dedicated its only African American high school on 21 Nov. 1936 and named it S.C. Abrams High School in honor of the Rev. Samuel Christopher Abrams, who served as county supervisor for the black schools and as minister in several Baptist churches. Before 1934, black students had to leave the county to attend high school, but in 1934 a temporary high school opened in a wood-frame building adjacent to New Fork Baptist Church. By 1936, money raised by the black community and the county provided black students with Abrams High School, which became a junior high school after school integration in the 1960s. Since 1991, the Abrams building, located one mile west, has housed administrative offices.

Virginia · United States