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  2. African Americans in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    The Great Migration increased Illinois’ black population by 81% from 1920 to 1930. [4] Many African Americans would reside in Chicago where they would build communities in the South and West sides of Chicago, creating churches, businesses, community organizations, and more to survive and sustain themselves in the segregated city.

  3. List of historically black colleges and universities - Wikipedia

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    Formed as a segregated Campus of University of Louisville on the foreclosed campus of Simmons College of Kentucky. Merged into University of Louisville as part of integrating U of L. Luther College: New Orleans: Louisiana: 1903 1925 Private [i] Mary Holmes College: West Point: Mississippi: 1892 2005 Private [j] Mississippi Industrial College ...

  4. History of African-American education - Wikipedia

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    The black leadership generally supported segregated all-black schools. [8] [9] The black community wanted black principals and teachers, or (in private schools) highly supportive whites sponsored by northern churches. Public schools were segregated throughout the South during Reconstruction and afterward into the 1950s.

  5. History of African Americans in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    A New Deal for Bronzeville: Housing, Employment, and Civil Rights in Black Chicago, 1935–1955 (Southern Illinois University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-8093-3426-1). xiv, 200 pp. Kleppner, Paul. Chicago Divided: The Making of a Black Mayor (Northern Illinois University Press, 1985); 1983 election of Harold Washington; Knupfer, Anne Meis.

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

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    Rosenwald schools (14 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Historically segregated African-American schools in the United States" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.

  7. Rosenwald Schools helped educate Black students in segregated ...

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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 ...

  8. Historically black colleges and universities - Wikipedia

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    They were primarily founded by Protestant religious groups, until the Second Morrill Act of 1890 required educationally segregated states (all in the South) to provide African American, public higher-education schools (i.e. state funded schools) in order to receive the Act's benefits (19, generally larger institutions, fall under this Act).

  9. Curtiss–Wright Aeronautical University - Wikipedia

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    While it opened as an all-white school, after Cornelius Coffey and John C. Robinson threatened to sue the school for denying them entrance in 1930, the superintendent agreed to conduct segregated classes for black students if the two could prove that enough black students would enroll. The two founded the Challenger Air Pilots Association to ...