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School Conversions in the Segregated St. Louis Public Schools District Prior to the Historic Brown v. Board of Education Ruling: An Urban School System's Response to the Migration of African Americans from the Rural South.
| Title: | School Conversions in the Segregated St. Louis Public Schools District Prior to the Historic Brown v. Board of Education Ruling: An Urban School System's Response to the Migration of African Americans from the Rural South. |
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| Authors: | Weathersby, Claude |
| Source: | Journal of Urban History; Mar2017, Vol. 43 Issue 2, p294-311, 18p |
| Abstract: | Even though the St. Louis Board of Education established the first high school for blacks west of the Mississippi River, the first facility was substandard. As the black population of St. Louis grew and encroached upon the white residential areas, it became necessary to provide additional school facilities for black enrollment. On several occasions, school officials reluctantly resorted to the conversion of school buildings from white to black use. During the decades of the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s, the St. Louis Public Schools district experienced a tremendous increase in the black student population. School conversions were prompted by civil protests and demands by the black community. The conversion (from white to black) of a school building's use, in some instances, tended to elicit the ire of the affected white parents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Subject Terms: | BROWN v. Board of Education of Topeka, PUBLIC schools, EDUCATION of African Americans, EMIGRATION & immigration, SEGREGATION in education, HISTORY, TWENTIETH century, HISTORY of segregation |
| Geographic Terms: | UNITED States |
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| ISSN: | 00961442 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0096144215575008 |
| Database: | Complementary Index |