Student post: Things about the Morton Theatre

      I am going to talk about the history of the Morton Theater. In 1909, in Athens, Georgia, there was a building owned by Pink Morton, an African American man. That building was the largest building in the world. Pink Morton hired people to play music there. In a couple years, he hired musicians like Alice Carter, the Butterbeans, Susie Willie McTell, Curley Weaver, and Roy Dunn.

I have five connections with Pink Morton:

•  We both lived in Athens, Ga
•  We both like music.
•   I have seen this theater in Hot Corner.
• We both had to try and try.
• People were mean to him because they were racist. Sometimes people are mean to me because they are racist.    

-Post by one of my third grade students