Retrospective
Golda Meir recounts in her book My Life that she "learned a lot more than fractions or how to spell at Fourth Street School..." When she was in fourth grade, Meir undertook her first public works project by organizing a fundraiser to pay for her classmates' textbooks. She rented a hall and scheduled a public meeting for the event.
A plaque mounted outside the front door of the school reads in part "it was here that she learned the values that carried her through life."
On October 3, 1969 Golda Meir revisited the school, accompanied by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and local Aldermen Vel Phillips and Orville Pitts. The school has since been named in her honor in 1979.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1990.
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