A Coconut Grove church launches lessons in Black history

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…

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