“A Proud Heritage” Website
Celebrates Carver High Grads

A new website celebrates former graduates of George Washington Carver High School, which opened in the 1920s as a school for African-Americans in Coconut Grove. The web site called A Proud Heritage records the voices of former Carver students who lived under the South’s Jim Crow laws, segregated from whites in all aspects of everyday life. Despite a lack of funding and facilities, they went on to become leaders and achievers, supported by devoted teachers, community and friends.

The site offers a place for visitors to share their stories of Carver and the West Grove.

A Proud History is a collaboration of the West Coconut Grove community with the University of Miami School of Law, Ransom Everglades School and University of Miami School of Communication. The Ministerial Alliance and UM Law Schools’ Center for Ethics and Public Service were the driving forces behind the project, locating the subjects and setting up the interviews. Ransom Everglades students administered the interviews, and UM Visual Journalism undergraduates photographed and edited them. The multimedia website was designed and produced by graduate students in UM’s Multimedia Journalism program.