WASHINGTON, N.C. (WITN) - Located on North Pierce Street in Washington is the P.S. Jones Museum of African-American Education.

It’s a site that stands on what used to be the P.S. Jones High School campus, which holds history and archives that highlight the path of education for Washington’s disenfranchised children before, during and after segregation.

“This museum represents a whole community,” James H. Smallwood, the museum’s historian, who also attended the school, said.

“lt demonstrates the tenacity of effort by individuals who taught here in spite of everything, they still persevered. I think about my grandparents and my fathers and all of those who persevered to endure whatever was happening in order to be here.”

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