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In 1831, a coalition of Black leaders and white abolitionists proposed the nation’s first African American college in New Haven, Connecticut, in an attempt to open a door to education that was largely shut in a time of slavery. Instead, the city’s freemen — white male landowners with the sole authority to vote, many with […]
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CNN — Maudy Adkinson Johnson remembers walking across cow fields and busy roads as a child to get to her one-room schoolhouse in Spring Hill, Tennessee. It was the 1950s, and Johnson said the Lee-Buckner School was teaching her how to read, write and do math problems. She was also making friends with other Black children. Never […]
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