Berry College: The Gate of Opportunity | Georgia Stories

Martha Berry founded Possum Trot, a log cabin school for rural children, at Oak Hill, on her Rome, Georgia family’s plantation. In addition to receiving academic and religious instruction, her students were trained in manual skills -- students literally helped build the Berry School. This segment includes scenes from a 1950s newsreel recounting the life of Martha Berry. Local historians and former students comment.
Original Air Date: 03/05/1995
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my father was a sharecropper , this video his a history of my family thank you so much ,

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this is cool my grandmother was adopted by martha berry . Dermaville Lovvorn i dont know here name she was adopted under my grandfather was a lovvorn we founded that area of georgia bowdon , she donated 100 of thousands to the school .

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I'm happening to watch this just as the new movie Sound of Hope is coming out.

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