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Historical Society officials visit local abandoned community center
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From left, PSU School of Construction Director Jim Otter, Katrina Ringler and Bethany Falvey of the Kansas Historical Society, and Donna Jackson Campbell Brice look at the interior of the long-disused Carver League building on Thursday. - photo by Jonathan Riley
PITTSBURG, Kan. — Donna Jackson Campbell Brice has long been working to save an abandoned segregation-era community center that served the local Black community, but she’s recently made more progress towards that goal than ever before, she says, as people have been contacting her to offer support and encouragement. “I’ve been messing with this for a few years now, but this is the furthest I’ve gotten,” Brice said Thursday. “I’ve gotten a little bit further each time.” Brice hopes to spark a community effort to renovate the long-disused Carver Social League building and turn it into a multicultural diversity center and museum.