Editing Rutherford County, Tennessee (section)

===Reconstruction and latter 19th century===
[[File:Bradley-academy-murfreesboro-tn1.jpg|thumb|Opened in 1884, [[Bradley Academy]] was Rutherford County's first high school for African Americans]]

In August 1869, rampaging white men drove close to 100 African American farmers from their homes, and out of the county, to [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]].<ref name="tennessee_lawless_1869_08_31_nytimes_com">[https://www.nytimes.com/1869/08/31/archives/tennessee-lawless-proceedings-in-rutherford-countynegroes-driven.html "TENNESSEE.; Lawless Proceedings in Rutherford County&mdash;Negroes Driven from their Homes&mdash;Proclamation by Governor Senter,"] August 31, 1869, ''[[New York Times]]'' archive, retrieved October 15, 2021</ref>

In 1884, [[Bradley Academy]] in Murfreesboro became Rutherford County's first accredited high school for African Americans. The co-educational school was operated by the Murfreesboro City Schools system. Bradley Academy was placed on the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Rutherford County, Tennessee|National Register of Historic Places]] in 1990.<ref>{{cite news | last = West | first = Mike | date = October 26, 2017 | title = Bradley Academy Dates Back to 1811 | url = https://www.murfreesboropost.com/news/bradley-academy-dates-back-to-1811/article_e62d95e1-8cd1-5a0d-aca4-a477a6e030cb.html | work = Murfreesboro Post}}</ref>