"Colored School"
Experiences
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Boyds Negro School
A n 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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