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Public schools in Alachua County were racially segregated from the end of Reconstruction in 1877. In response to the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v.Board of Education, the Alachua County Public Schools Board was ordered by the courts to operate a freedom of choice system starting in 1964, when there were eleven all-black schools in the district.
P. K. Yonge Developmental Research School is a PreK-12 public laboratory school of the University of Florida, in Gainesville, Florida, United States. The student population, selected by lottery, mirrors the demographics of the school-age population of the State of Florida.
Oak Hall was founded in 1970, the same year that Gainesville finished desegregation of their high schools. [1] Founded by Drs. Billy Brashear and Harry L. Walker, the school was open to all "without regard to race, creed or color", but had a $1,100 tuition.
Alachua County Public Schools; B. Buchholz High School; E. Eastside High School (Gainesville, Florida) G. Gainesville High School (Florida) K. Kika Silva Pla ...
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Orange City Colored School: Marian Coleman Elementary: 200 East Blue Springs Avenue: Orange City, Volusia County: August 1, 2003 Osborne School: Osborne Elementary School: 1718 South Douglas Street: Lake Worth, Palm Beach County: August 1, 2003 Liberty Hill Schoolhouse: 7600 Northwest 23rd Avenue: Gainesville, Alachua County: August 28, 2003 ...
Gainesville's schools began desegregating in the 1960s and its high schools were integrated from 1968 to 1970, the "colored" schools having been either closed or integrated. [ 58 ] Elementary schools
The Union Academy was a school founded with the aid of the Freedmen's Bureau in Gainesville, Florida in 1867. It was the first school for African Americans in Gainesville and Alachua County, and provided a free quality education to African Americans when public schools in Alachua County were struggling. The Union Academy was eventually absorbed ...