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The Virginia General Assembly forbids the teaching of African-Americans, slave or free, to read or write
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Virginia Law declares that white and African American persons should be taught in separate schools.
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Virginia schools employ one African-American teacher for every 232 school-aged African-American children.
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U.S. Supreme Court endorses the doctrine of "separate but equal" in the Plessy vs. Ferguson case.
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Large amounts of money is donated by wealthy philanthropists and business owners to fund African-American education. Six schools were built from that money in Alabama.
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Virginia schools employ one African-American teacher for every 80 school-aged African-American children (recall the ratio from 1871).
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On average, each white teacher in Virginia is responsible for 33 while pupils, while eacher African-American teacher has 48 African-American pupils.
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Wood Grand donates 2 acres of his land for the Scrabble School to be built on. This school was founded by Isaiah Wallace, who was born in 1876.
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The Rosenwald School program ends after sponsoring 4,977 schools, 217 teachers homes, and 163 shop buildings in 15 states.
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Wallace, founder of the Scrabble School, dies at age 69. Also, George Washington Carver High School opens as the closest high school for African Americans in relation to Scrabble School.
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In Brown vs. Board of Education, the Supreme Court overturns Plessy vs. Ferguson to integrate the schools.
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Scrabble School remains open as a segregated school.
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Virginia passes a series of "Massive Resistance" laws to avoid school integration. Over the next decade, tens of thousands of African-American students are denied public education as schools in several cities are closed.
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White students join African-American children at Scrabble School for the school year 1967-1968.
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The Scrabble School is closed and a new integrated school is built.
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The black-white achievement gap narrowed but to this day has not narrowed any further.
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African-American 25 to 29 year olds were only about half as likely as their white peers to have completed 4 years of college. To this day, this gap has not diminished).
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African-Americans and white students 16 to 24 year olds who had been retained were about equally likely to drop out of school. However, African-American 16 to 24 year olds were much more likely to have repeated one or more grades.
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African-American high school completion rate was 84% , while the completion rate of their white peers was 90%.
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University of Wyoming creates Diversity Strategic Planning Committee to further create a UW Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement Plan for both long term and short term goals on creating a diverse university. [Link text]