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Episodes tagged "Brown vs. Board of Educat": 1 through 2 of 2

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  1. Lincoln Elementary and High School, McClennanville, SC: A Standing Artifact of Desegregation in South Carolina
    date 1955 to 1960map Greenville, South Carolinatags equalization schools, Supreme Court, construction, Lincoln, Greenville, SC, South Carolina, Educational System, Brown vs. Board of Educat, Education, Desegregation

    A photograph of Lincoln Elemetary and High School, as it still stands in McClennanville, South Carolina, an unoccupied building with boarded windows, is the starting point for this episode in American history. The photograph was taken by Rebekah Dobrasko, in 2008, as part of a master's thesis on equalization schools in South Carolina. Across the state of South Carolina from 1951-1960, a wave of new...

  2. The African American Struggle through the U.S. Educational System
    date 1870 to 1890map ORANGE, Floridatags Black Schools, Educational System, african americans, Plessy vs. Ferguson, Brown vs. Board of Educat

    Before the end of the Civil War, the education of black slaves in the United States was a criminal endeavor. Although efforts were made in the newly formed free black communities to organize schools, few African Americans received any education at all before the Reconstruction Era when public schools were opened. Even then, establishments for black children were poorly financed and largely ignored....