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At Marfa's Blackwell School, children were told to bury Spanish

Blackwell School in Marfa, with a pale adobe facade, two tall windows, wooden door and front steps beneath a blue sky.
Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas. Photograph date unknown; this is not an image of the 1954 ceremony.
Photo: David Larson / National Park Service, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain in the United States. Cropped and resized. No claim to original U.S. Government works.

A 1954 ceremony at Blackwell School sits within a longer history of segregated classrooms and the alumni campaign that saved its buildings.

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