Rosenwald partnered with African American educator and activist Booker T. Washington to build thousands of schools for Black students in 15 states.

A historic Black school building in Powhatan County faces demolition Monday despite opposition from former students and local ...

During her elementary school years in this rural Mississippi town, Addreal Harness, a competitive teenager with plans to be a doctor, said her classes had about the same numbers of white and black ...

A Better Life for Their Children, a special art exhibition about Black schools during segregation at the Holocaust museum in Dallas, Texas, Thursday evening, March 6, 2025.(Anja Schlein / Special ...

When segregation worked: At all-black school, we all thrived. By Bill Maxwell April 4, 2010. ... During the elementary grades, for example, all of us memorized the multiplication tables.

Nationwide, nearly 75 percent of black students attend so-called majority-minority schools, and 38 percent attend schools with a white population of 10 percent or less.

America’s school-age population is more diverse than ever before, reflecting the demographic shift rapidly taking place in our country. America’s schools, however, are more segregated than ...

History & Hope 2: Segregation, Integration. Three perspectives on life during segregation, integration. Stories of growing up, going to segregated schools, and reflections on the civil rights era ...

All of the schools founded as segregation academies in Macon, a majority-Black city, remain vastly white. FPD, with 11% Black enrollment as of the 2021-22 school year, has the highest proportion ...

Denita Dorsey, with son Julian Morris, 16, in Saginaw, Mich., said: “Segregation is abolished, sure, but our schools are still deeply divided along racial and socioeconomic lines.

History & Hope 2: Segregation, Integration. Three perspectives on life during segregation, integration. Stories of growing up, going to segregated schools, and reflections on the civil rights era ...

History & Hope 2: Segregation, Integration. Three perspectives on life during segregation, integration. Stories of growing up, going to segregated schools, and reflections on the civil rights era ...