On the second day of summer camp, about two dozen students fill the pews in the sanctuary of Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, the oldest African-American church in the West Grove, awaiting the start of their next activity.
Two projector screens read, “Introduction to Black History, Part II” as instructor Loretta Scippio-Whittle stands at the front of the room.
She begins her lesson about the Fessenden Academy in Ocala and Rosenwald School project – historic educational institutions established in the 19th and early 20th centuries to educate African American children – and the students copy notes from a small dry-erase board…