Archives Closed Schools D-F: Fifth Street African Baptist Church Colored School

Last Address: Fifth and Green (later Liberty) streets

Year Opened: 1870

Year Closed: 1873 circa

This was one of the first public schools in Louisville for black students.  It opened in rented quarters in the Fifth Street African Baptist Church.  Susie Adams presided as principal.  As new school buildings for black students were constructed, the schools in rented quarters closed.