Dorchester Academy, just outside Midway, Georgia, preserves the intertwined history of Black education after the Civil War and the civil rights movement. Founded in 1869 by the American Missionary Association to educate local freed people, the school operated until 1940 before fires and demolition erased most of the campus. Its surviving Boys' Dormitory, built in 1935, later became nationally significant as the main base of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Citizenship Education Program from 1961 to 1970. Overseen there by Septima Poinsette Clark, the program taught African Americans across the South about their rights and prepared them for voter registration tests, helping launch hundreds of education centers.