{"id":1930,"date":"2025-04-16T18:19:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T18:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/?p=1930"},"modified":"2025-10-22T13:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:16:52","slug":"shelbyvilles-colored-graded-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/shelbyvilles-colored-graded-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelbyville\u2019s Colored Graded School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group post-header\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full post-header-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Colored-Graded-School.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-sXzyvtxg\" data-magnific_type=\"image\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"868\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Colored-Graded-School.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Colored-Graded-School.jpg 868w, https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Colored-Graded-School-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Colored-Graded-School-600x373.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group post-header-info\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Shelbyville\u2019s Colored Graded School<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Shelbyville&#8217;s Colored Graded School was the only primary school for African American children in the city. This building was erected in 1909 and located on the south side of Bradshaw Street between 5th and 6th Streets. It was destroyed by fire in 1945.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shelbyville\u2019s Colored Graded School Shelbyville&#8217;s Colored Graded School was the only primary school for African American children in the city. This building was erected in 1909 and located on the south side of Bradshaw Street between 5th and 6th Streets. It was destroyed by fire in 1945.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"post_folder":[67],"class_list":["post-1930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people-and-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5325,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions\/5325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}