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  2. Category : Historically segregated African-American schools ...

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    Pages in category "Historically segregated African-American schools in the United States" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  3. History of African-American education - Wikipedia

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    NAACP studies of unequal expenditures in the mid-to-late 1920s found that Georgia spent $4.59 per year on each African-American child as opposed to $36.29 on each white child. [42] A study by Doxey Wilkerson at the end of the 1930s found that only 19 percent of 14- to 17-year-old African Americans were enrolled in high school."

  4. School segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    While African Americans faced legal segregation in civil society, Mexican Americans often dealt with de facto segregation, meaning no federal laws explicitly barred their access to schools or other public facilities, yet they were still separated from white people. The proponents of Mexican-American segregation were often officials who worked ...

  5. School integration in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Racial segregation in schools existed throughout most of American history and remains an issue in contemporary education. During the Civil Rights Movement school integration became a priority, but since then de facto segregation has again become prevalent. [1] School segregation declined rapidly during the late 1960s and early 1970s. [2]

  6. Racial segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    An African American man drinking at a "colored" drinking fountain in a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City, 1939 by Russell Lee [15] Black schools were established by some religious groups and philanthropists to educate African Americans. Oberlin Academy was one of the early schools to integrate. Lowell High School also accepted African ...

  7. Segregation in American schools is growing 62 years after ...

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    The number of students attending 'High-Poverty and mostly Black or Hispanic' (H/PBH) public schools more than doubled between 2001 and 2014. Segregation in American schools is growing 62 years ...

  8. Decades after Brown v. Board, US schools still struggle with ...

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    Board of Education decision, handed down in 1954, was supposed to end racial segregation in the nation’s public schools. But that work remains undone, as evidenced by a U.S. Department of ...

  9. Rosenwald School - Wikipedia

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    In the segregated schools of the South, African American children were sent to woefully underfunded schools. The collaboration of Rosenwald and Washington led to the construction of almost 5,000 schools for black children in the eleven states of the former Confederacy as well as Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland.