The City of Gadsden is pleased to announce the 2023 Carver Legacy Project honoring what should have been the graduating class of 1972. Carver High School was built in 1936 and was Gadsden’s first full 12-year public school for African American students. The school became a victim of desegregation efforts in 1971 with the closing of the school by the Gadsden Board of Education. This separated the 1971 junior class into various local high schools taking away their graduation as a class in the spring of 1972.

To honor the class of 1972, we will be placing two monuments with the names of all students that would have graduated that year. We hope you will take the opportunity to consider a sponsorship for the Carver Legacy Project. Your sponsorship would support bronze plaques placed on two gray granite monuments located in the courtyard of the Central-Carver Museum. We hope to show that by acknowledging the past, we can honor our fellow citizens and the legacy of Carver High School.


SPONSORSHIP LEVELS

Platinum Plus – $7000 and above – Logo on event website, printed materials, social media post, VIP seating for 8 at the groundbreaking, recognition from the podium as a sponsor and 5 mins at the podium during the ribbon cutting.

Platinum – $5000 – Logo on the website, printed materials, social media post, VIP seating for 4 at the groundbreaking and recognition from the podium as a sponsor.

Gold – $2500 – Logo on the website, social media post, seating at the groundbreaking, recognition from the podium as a sponsor.

Silver – $1000 – Logo on the website and social media post, recognition from the podium as a sponsor.