WHO WE ARE

Our Mission

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Etowah Bush School is a 501(c)3 historical consulting firm that works to preserve and promote rural African American culture, history, and art. Through digital community archives, visual arts exhibits, tours, oral history interviews, digital storytelling, and community events, we create opportunities for the community to participate in constructing a more robust narrative of the rural African American experience.

 

The name of our business, Etowah Bush School, pays homage to the Creek/Muskogee and Cherokee native populations who lived and thrived on the land near the Etowah River. Bush School refers to and pays homage to the newly emancipated African Americans, who were eager to educate their children, and held school outside, under bush or brush arbors before the creation of formal schoolhouses in Black communities.

 

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