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Pages in category "Historically segregated African-American schools in West Virginia" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Kelly Miller High School was a 'colored' or 'negro' high school in Clarksburg, West Virginia operated from 1903 until school desegregation in 1956. The school was named in honor of Kelly Miller, an African American mathematician, sociologist, essayist, newspaper columnist, author, and an important figure in the intellectual life of black America for close to half a century.
The Halltown Colored Free School in Halltown, West Virginia was built in 1870 to educate children from the African-American community in Halltown. The school was racially segregated from local schools for whites, in accordance with the laws of the time. It functioned in that capacity until 1929, when it was converted to a residence.
Historically segregated African-American schools in West Virginia (18 P) I. International Baccalaureate schools in West Virginia (1 P) M. ... West Virginia school ...
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It was in schools like this one, and nearly 5,000 others built in the American South a century ago, that Black students largely ignored by whites in power gained an educational foundation through ...
In 1931, the original institution's name was changed to the West Virginia Colored Children's Home. [6] By 1951, residents of the Children's Home were no longer educated on site, but were bused to segregated public schools. [5] The West Virginia Colored Children's Home was closed in 1956 and the building was used as a nursing home, the West ...
In Virginia, though, the political valence of the act is especially sharp. Stonewall Jackson High School opened in 1959 as a White-only school, in defiance of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board ...