Teacher Thomas A. Trigg of Arrow Rock, Missouri
This file appears in: Missouri's Little Dixie African American History Tour
This file appears in: Missouri's Little Dixie African American History Tour
Missouri's Little Dixie African American History Tour
In 1869, J. Milton Turner, a Black resident of Boonville, Missouri, was tasked by the Western Sanitary Commission and the American Missionary Association with funding from the Freedmen's Bureau to begin efforts to educate Black children in Missouri.…