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The Carver Class of 1960 was the school's last, the first black elementary schools were closed in 1955 with the remainder by 1961. Black students were distributed to formerly all-white schools throughout the county. Because some schools remained all-white, they were integrated by transferring black
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Washington Carver High School operated with roughly equal funding with the white schools and was fully accredited. A new brick building with eight classrooms on the first floor, and large science and home economics labs on the second floor, it offered junior college-level
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prior to the integration of public schools, which occurred between 1955 and 1961. It replaced two earlier all-black high schools, the first founded in 1927. From that time until integration, there was only one high school for blacks in all of
Montgomery County, Maryland.
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The board took over the facility for its administrative offices, dropping the Carver name, but restored the name after a petition by the NAACP and local black ministers. In 2002, the building was named a
Rockville Historic District.
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courses as well. This was the first post-high school opportunity for black children in
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Before Us Lies the Timber: The
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History of the Black
Schools of Montgomery County, Maryland, 1872-1961
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294:"From Segregation to Integration: Two Black Teachers Look Back"
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African-American schools in Maryland
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African-American history of
Montgomery County, Maryland
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George
Washington Carver High School and Junior College
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207:Clarke, Nina H. and Lillian B. Brown (1978).
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273:"Carver High School and Junior College"
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559:George Washington Carver High School
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367:Montgomery County Public Schools
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850:Rochambeau French Int'l School
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154:Julius Rosenwald Fund
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172:William B. Gibbs Jr.
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161:Lincoln High School
133:Rockville, Maryland
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58:Coordinates
1001:Categories
944:Elementary
689:Clarksburg
422:Clarksburg
194:References
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879:Religious
754:Rockville
729:Northwood
724:Northwest
487:Rockville
467:Northwood
462:Northwest
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764:Sherwood
719:Magruder
694:Damascus
497:Sherwood
427:Damascus
44:Maryland
27:Location
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140:History
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