"Colored School"
Experiences
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Quince Orchard Colored School
A year after the
community's black school burned down in 1901, Montgomery County moved
black students into this one-room Gaithersburg schoolhouse,
according to school officials. At the time, it was an
abandoned schoolhouse. It had earlier been used by white students.
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Copyright ©
2004 University
of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism
Published
April 2, 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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