{"id":68,"featured":0,"modified":"2023-08-28 15:41:06","latitude":30.6330921691718884858346427790820598602294921875,"longitude":-97.6735745246996884816326200962066650390625,"title":"Site of the Negro Fine Arts School","subtitle":"The Negro Fine Arts School associated with Southwestern from 1946-1966 was actually located off campus at First Methodist Church, Georgetown.","fullsize":"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/fullsize/e3609ca0d96387e6e70a34bf504eaf41.jpg","address":"","all_locations":[],"zoom":17,"creator":["Harper Randolph '25"],"description":"The Negro Fine Arts School was an off-campus community engagement program undertaken by a set of Southwestern students and faculty from 1946-1966 that taught music lessons to local Black children during the Jim Crow era, when both Southwestern and Georgetown I.S.D. were segregated.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nThis is the location where the lessons actually occurred, at the educational building of First Methodist Church, which has a Texas state historical marker about the Negro Fine Arts School displayed prominently in front of its main building.  See other entries about the Negro Fine Arts School for more details about the program and how it is remembered.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":[],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/fullsize/e3609ca0d96387e6e70a34bf504eaf41.jpg":{"id":265,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Students and faculty of the Negro Fine Arts School","description":"Photo taken in front of the educational building of First Methodist Church | Martha Allen, The Gracious Gift | 1952 | unknown","thumbnail":"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/square_thumbnails/e3609ca0d96387e6e70a34bf504eaf41.jpg"}}}