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The Oxford School District is a public school district based in Oxford, Mississippi.
Image of the Oxford, Mississippi School District Office
In the United States, school students were often segregated based on their race. While not prohibited from having or attending schools, various minorities were barred from most schools that admitted w
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…Oxford Learning Center (Grades 6 and 12) In the Jim Crow era, where white and black students attended separate schools, the "Negro Elementary and High School" housed black students. Construction began and ended in 1938 and 1939, respectively. The Public Works Administration…
In 1960, U.S. marshals were needed to escort Ruby Bridges to and from school in New Orleans, Louisiana, as she broke the State of Louisiana's segregation rules.
Students in a one-room school in Waldorf, Maryland (1941)
Quote from Supreme Court Decision in Brown v. Board of Education case, hung at the Historic Site in Topeka, Kansas, USA
Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort the Little Rock Nine to Central High School in Little Rock in Sept. 1957, after the governor of Arkansas tried to enforce segregation.