Colored school

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Colored school is a term that has been historically used in the United States during the Jim Crow-era to refer to a segregated African American school or black school (which could be at any school type or level). It has also been used as a term used to describe historically black colleges and universities (HBCU). Establishments called colored schools include: * Abbeville Colored School in Abbeville, Mississippi; NRHP-listed * Alapaha Colored School in Alapaha, Georgia; NRHP–listed * Ashburn Colored School in Ashburn, Virginia * Avondale Colored School in Scottdale, Georgia; later known as Hamilton High School * Bellevue Avenue Colored School in Trenton, New Jersey; NRHP–listed * Brooklyn Colored School in Brooklyn (now Oakland), Alameda County, California * Buena Vista Colored School in Buena Vista, Virginia; NRHP–listed * Calhoun Colored School in Calhoun, Alabama * Coinjock Colored School in Coinjock, North Carolina; NRHP–listed * Colored School No.…

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