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Founded in 1880, Mobile County Training School was one of the first schools to educate Black students in Alabama. With connections to Booker T. Washington and Julius Rosenwald, the school grew throughout the early 20th-century and became well known for its athletics and student work ethic and culture. Many MCTS graduates moved on to college, military service, and positions of community leadership. A few of the notable achievements of the school are multiple hall of fame baseball and football players as well as a Tuskegee airman. After integration, the MCTS became a middle school, and in 2014 a gas pipeline was run underneath the school’s athletic field. MCTS was and is a fundamental part of the Africatown Community. Current MCTS students have participated as interviewers in the Oral History Project. Many of the oral history interviews have been conducted with MCTS alumni, who continually affirm the school’s importance both to the community and to their individual success in life.