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elementary school in America’s Deep South. As a 6-year-old first-grader, she was the only black student to enter the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans.
A substitute custodian was arrested at Ruby Bridges Elementary School on July 1 after a student reported to her parents that the man made “inappropriate comments” to her, according to a letter ...
Archaeologists in Virginia have unearthed the foundation of a building from the 1700s that once supported the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, William & Mary announced ...
The excavation of the Williamsburg Bray School has yielded hundreds of artifacts, providing a glimpse into the lives of Black children who attended the school in the 1760s.