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George Washington Carver High School (Naples, Florida)

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The school graduated a total of 33 students in its 9-year history. In the mid-1960s, Collier County School superintendent Bill Reynolds integrated the faculty of Naples High School by moving Herbert Cambridge, a teacher at Carver, to Naples. Unlike many segregated districts in Florida, there was no
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In the 1950s, schools for elementary-school-aged blacks were opened and grades were added year by year. By 1959, a high school was added and George Washington Carver High School was founded. There were two teachers provided for the school. Athletics also were segregated, so the teams had to travel
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The school site today houses the River Park Community Center as well as the George Washington Carver public housing project.
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court order and black students were integrated into the white schools with little public comment in 1968.
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did not provide an education for the black youth of Naples. They were allowed to attend schools such as
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long distances for games. Blacks were not allowed to attend the
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Historically segregated African-American schools in Florida
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Coordinates
26°09′04″N 81°47′40″W / 26.151112°N 81.794393°W / 26.151112; -81.794393
District School Board of Collier County
secondary school
Naples, Florida
Collier County
Dunbar High School
Fort Myers
Immokalee
Naples High School
Naples North, FL
"Naples' black high school has vanished, but alumni will recall it in rare reunion"
"Graduates of Naples' segregated Carver High reminisce at rare reunion"
"CENTERED ON INCLUSION"
"Herbert Cambridge is longtime educator among first to cross racial line in Collier schools"
Categories
Historically segregated African-American schools in Florida
Public high schools in Florida
Defunct schools in Florida
1968 disestablishments in Florida
Historically black schools
1959 establishments in Florida

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