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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."
Orange City Colored School: 1925 built 2003 NRHP-listed 200 E. Blue Springs Avenue Orange City, Florida [5] Pompano Colored School: 1928 built 718 NW Sixth Street Pompano Beach, Florida: demolished in 1972 and the site is now Coleman Park Salem School: Gadsden County, Florida [6] Sarasota Grammar School: Quincy, Florida [7] The Rosenwald School
In 2015, the National Trust classified the Rosenwald Schools as National Treasures. Historical marker dedication for Barney Colored Elementary School in Brooks County, Georgia. In Georgia, several Rosenwald School sites have been commemorated through the Georgia Historical Marker Program, currently administered by the Georgia Historical Society ...
The Escambia County Training School (1920–1970) was a segregated training school for African-American students in Atmore in Escambia County, Alabama, United States. It was also known as the Atmore Colored School. In 2016, the school building was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage.
Colored school is a term that has been historically used in the United States during the Jim Crow-era to refer to a segregated African American school or black school ...
The new junior colleges began as extensions of black high schools. They used the same facilities and often the same faculty. Some built their own buildings after a few years. After the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 mandated an end to school segregation, the colleges were all abruptly closed. Only a fraction of the students and faculty ...
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.
Coinjock Colored School is a historic Rosenwald school building for African-American students located at Coinjock, Currituck County, North Carolina. It was built in 1920, and is a one-story frame, side-gable-roof, two-classroom school building with American Craftsman style design elements. The school was one of three Rosenwald schools built in ...