Bradley Academy Museum and Cultural Center

415 South Academy Street: In the 1930s, Bradley Academy was the elementary school for black children in Murfreesboro and was an anchor for the middle-class black section of town. The building was painted by the WPA, and the Tennessee Emergency Relief Administration ran a nursery school for children in the building. Mary Ellen Vaughn, a black educator and nurse, wrote the federal Negro Bureau describing local efforts to raise educational standards in the area. The former school is now a multi-use cultural center and museum.