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When Was the First School Integrated?

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When Was the First School Integrated?

Little Rock Central High School
The first institutions to integrate would be the high schools, beginning in September 1957. Among these was Little Rock Central High School, which opened in 1927 and was originally called Little Rock Senior High School.

When did school integration start?

The U.S. Supreme Court issued its historic Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 347 U.S. 483, on May 17, 1954. Tied to the 14th Amendment, the decision declared all laws establishing segregated schools to be unconstitutional, and it called for the desegregation of all schools throughout the nation.

What was the first integrated university?

In 1850, the Kentuckian aristocrat, Cassius Marcellus Clay, gave a 10-acre land to John Gregg Fee, an abolitionist, so that Fee could build Berea College, America's first integrated institution of higher learning in the South.

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