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"Colored School" Experiences

 

Boyds Negro School (Maryland Newsline photo by Charmere Gatson)

Boyds Negro School

 

An unheated, one-room 22- by 30-foot wooden building served as the only public school for blacks in the Boyds, Md., area from 1896 to 1936. Students attended first through eighth grade there. Boyds closed after a school census revealed it had deteriorated beyond reasonable repair. Today, the building serves as a community center.

 

Note: On the sign placed in front of the schoolhouse in 1979, Boyds was misspelled, with the "s" left off.


 

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 Copyright © 2004 University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism

Published March 2004; Last updated 04/02/04

Special Report produced by Charmere Gatson. Edited for the Web by Chris Harvey. Edited for TV by Dave Burns. Banner photo courtesy Joseph Douglas Collection, Kansas Collection, Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries 


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