Springfield Center for Arts, Education, and Civil Rights Legacy
Where Civil Rights History Meets Modern Creativity
A Legacy Reborn
The Springfield School holds nearly a century of Black history — a place where children learned, families gathered, and a community persevered through segregation and beyond. After decades of abandonment, the building is now being revived as the Springfield Center for Arts, Education, and Civil Rights Legacy.
Our mission is simple:
To preserve the history within these walls while creating new opportunities for the people of Wilson County and beyond. The Center will serve as a modern home for creativity, learning, technology, and intergenerational connection — honoring the past while building a brighter future.
Programs & Spaces
We are transforming the building into a community hub designed for creativity, access, and growth. Our first programs will include:
Computer Lab (Digital Literacy Hub)
A dedicated space designed to close the digital divide in rural communities.
Featuring 12–20 ergonomic computer stations, polished concrete floors, a full whiteboard wall, mounted instructional screen, printer/scanner hub, and clean cable management.
This lab supports homework help, job skill development, coding lessons, and digital literacy programs for all ages.
E-Sports Lab
A high-energy, engaging environment built to meet youth where they are.
Equipped with PC or console gaming stations, polished concrete floors, mounted screens, subtle LED accent lighting, sound panels, team desk layouts, and upgraded network infrastructure.
This space strengthens youth engagement, teamwork, and digital citizenship through competitive gaming.
Makerspace
A hands-on creative technology zone for building, designing, and experimenting.
Includes modular work tables, pegboard tool walls, supply storage, a sewing machine area with cutting table, smartboard or interactive display, charging carts, and room for 3D printers and future tech.
Perfect for textile arts, design, problem-solving, and creative technology exploration.
Multipurpose Classrooms (2–3 rooms)
Flexible rooms designed to shift with community needs.
Each classroom includes mounted screens, stackable chairs, modular tables, and a warm, neutral color palette with mixed flooring.
Ideal for art classes, after-school programs, workshops, small meetings, tutoring, and flexible creative programming.
GET INVOLVED
Be Part of the Rebirth
The Springfield Center is a community-powered project. Every step forward — every repaired room, every new program, every youth or senior who walks through our doors — happens because people choose to get involved.
Whether you give your time, your skills, or your resources, you become part of restoring a historic Black landmark and building a modern hub for creativity, technology, and community life.
Volunteer
From renovation assistance to event support, your time helps bring the Center to life. No experience required — just a willingness to show up for the community.
Partner With Us
Local businesses, artists, teachers, tech professionals, and community leaders: we want to collaborate. Together, we can build programs that uplift every generation.
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Help Us Open the Doors
This school once held generations of Black students who were denied access elsewhere. Today, we’re bringing it back as a place where every child, senior, and community member can learn, create, and be supported.
Your gift helps transform abandoned classrooms into classrooms filled with opportunity.
Give to the legacy.
Give to the future.
Give to Springfield.