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Mary Brunson says
St Luke school was for the blackS who attended this church. It was a one room elementary school some of my family the Black, Brunson and Gedddis attended this school.
Mary Brunson says
Lincoln High School downtown Sumter, S.C. and the St Luke AME church school was attedned by family members from the beginning of it conception.