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Columbus, Georgia MARSHALL MIDDLE SCHOOL

Text Box: Here's How we got our name The Shadrack R. Marshall Junior High School was built by the city of Columbus in 1930 and was know then as the Spencer High School.  This building housed the first accredited high school by the State of Georgia for African American youth in Columbus and Muscogee County.  In 1953, the Spencer High School faculty and student body moved from the original building on Tenth Avenue and occupied the new building on Shepherd Drive.  At that time, the Board of Education officially designated the old Spencer High building as the Spencer Junior High, and it continued under this name until May 11, 1958, when the Board passed an official resolution renaming the school the Shadrach R. Marshall Junior High in honor of Shadrach R.                                                 Marshall, who served as a teacher and principal in the public schools of Columbus and Muscogee County for fifty years.  In 1979, when the new Spencer High was completed on Victory Drive, Marshall moved to Shepherd Drive - where it is today. Upon graduation from Tuskegee Institute, Professor Marshall decided to devote his life to teaching. He taught first grade in Pike County, Alabama, then in Talbot County, Georgia, and afterwards in Bullock County, Alabama. He later moved to Muscogee County, where he taught in the county schools from 1890 to 1897. It was in the fall of 1897 that he first became connected with the public schools in Columbus. He was elected as teacher in the seventh grade in the Sixth Avenue School and taught there one year. From 1898 to 1908 he was made the principal of the Twenty-eighth Street School. In 1908 without any solicitation of his part, he was made principal of the Claflin School.  He held this position until his voluntary retirement on August 31, 1940. Shadrach Marshall was born in Talbot County on September 6, 1865, and died on September 25, 1946.  He was highly esteemed by all the citizens of Columbus and Muscogee County, and Marshall Junior High school will stand as a monument to the contribution which he made to education of the African American youth of this community. Marshall's Past Principals Mr. Melvin Blackwell Dr. Carlos Skeete Ms. Vanessa Biggers Mr. Edward Smith Dr. Joann Thomas-Brown Mr. Cleophus Hope, Sr. Mr. Eddie Obleton Dr.  M. E. Clarke  

 

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