The former Murphey School was next to downtown Raleigh's Historic Oakwood, this 1916 school is being used as apartments and it's auditorium as a performing arts theatre. As a public school, it was the testing ground for desegregation of Raleigh school system in 1961. It was integrated peacefully and the rest of the system soon followed.
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