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Colored School No. 3 (Former) (Public School 69) is a historic public school building in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. It was built in 1879 for the exclusive use of African-American students, and although the school closed in 1934, the building is the only one of its kind still standing in Brooklyn.
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Board of Education, which banned segregated school laws, school segregation took de facto form. School segregation declined rapidly during the late 1960s and early 1970s as the government became strict on schools' plans to combat segregation more effectively as a result of Green v. County School Board of New Kent County. [2]
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Luker, Ralph E. (Summer–Autumn 1984). "Missions, Institutional Churches, and Settlement Houses: The Black Experience, 1885-1910". The Journal of Negro History. 69 (3/4). Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, Inc.: 101– 113. doi:10.2307/2717616. ISSN 0022-2992. JSTOR 2717616. S2CID 150201810
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 ...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, enacted five months after the New York City school boycott, included a loophole that allowed school segregation to continue in major northern cities including New York City, Boston, Chicago and Detroit. [4] As of 2018, New York City continues to have the most segregated schools in the country. [9]
The last racially segregated school built by a defiant Fort Worth ISD was the Ninth Ward Colored School in 1958. This was four years after the Supreme Court’s Brown vs. the Board of Education of ...