"The long-shuttered Hooper‑Renwick School in Lawrenceville has been reborn as a themed library and museum, keeping a painful yet proud chapter of Gwinnett County’s history very much alive. The 1951 brick building, once the only public high school for Black students in the county, now holds interactive exhibits, oral‑history recordings and a full branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library. Alumni who spent years fighting demolition say the overhaul turns a former symbol of segregation into a living civic space for the next generation.

"Beyond the exhibits, the branch includes a Black Studies room, an annual speaker series and community meeting space designed to keep the building busy throughout the week. Those programs and the library’s role in centering local Black history were profiled in work on library innovation from Urban Libraries, while regular hours and event listings appear on the system’s site at Gwinnett County Public Library."

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