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  2. History of African-American education - Wikipedia

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    The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860–1935 (1988); a standard scholarly study. online; Bentley, George R. A History of the Freedmen's Bureau (1955) a scholarly history; online; Brazzell, Johnetta Cross. "Bricks without straw: Missionary-sponsored Black higher education in the post-emancipation era." Journal of Higher Education 63.1 (1992 ...

  3. School integration in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the first half of the 20th century there were several efforts to combat school segregation, but few were successful. A rare success story was the Berwyn School Fight in Pennsylvania, in which the NAACP and Raymond Pace Alexander helped the Black community reintegrate local schools. [10]

  4. List of historically black colleges and universities - Wikipedia

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    Founded to show that separate but equal educational institutions for African Americans were viable, and that racial integration, mandated by Brown v. Board of Education, was unnecessary. Closed shortly after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; nominally merged with St. Petersburg Junior College (today St. Petersburg College). Guadalupe College

  5. Historically black colleges and universities - Wikipedia

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    Sports were expanding rapidly at state universities, but very few black stars were recruited there. Race newspapers hailed athletic success as a demonstration of racial progress. Black schools hired coaches, recruited and featured stellar athletes, and set up their own leagues. [31] [32]

  6. African-American teachers - Wikipedia

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    Slavery in the United States was abolished in mid 19th century and allowed for the establishment and push for education among black communities. Education varied in the North and the South yet prominent figures wrote speeches and fought for equal education. African Americans would battle for equality, rights, and inclusion with education as ...

  7. Desegregation busing - Wikipedia

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    Prior to World War II, most public schools in the country were de jure or de facto segregated. All Southern states had Jim Crow Laws mandating racial segregation of schools. . Northern states and some border states were primarily white (in 1940, the populations of Detroit and Chicago were more than 90% white) and existing black populations were concentrated in urban ghettos partly as the ...

  8. Training school (United States) - Wikipedia

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    A training school, or county training school, was a type of segregated school for African American students found in the United States and Canada. In the Southern United States they were established to educate African Americans at elementary and secondary levels, especially as teachers; and in the Northern United States they existed as educational reformatory schools.

  9. Freedom Schools - Wikipedia

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    Freedom Schools were temporary, alternative, and free schools for African Americans mostly in the South.They were originally part of a nationwide effort during the Civil Rights Movement to organize African Americans to achieve social, political and economic equality in the United States.