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In August 1908, a white mob attacked Springfield, Illinois’s Black community, destroying homes and businesses and lynching two Black men. National outrage over the violence helped spur the movement that created the NAACP the following year.
MORE →Reflects the personal views, recollections, and perspective of the author, Mike Davis.
This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
J. C. Cook High School was a public high school for black children in Wrightsville, Arkansas, operated by the Pulaski County Special School District. The school originally occupied a frame building. A newer seven-classroom facility was built circa 1956, and the older building was closed. At the time Cook was one of two high schools for black children in portions of Pulaski County outside of the City of Little Rock. Around 1958 it had 395 students from its own territory. In 1958–1959 the Little Rock School District closed all of its schools, so 205 black students were temporarily transferred from Horace Mann High School in Little Rock to J. C. Cook. Therefore, J. C. Cook reopened the original school building and hired four additional teachers. Due to its size, the school was unable to accommodate all of the students from Mann. After desegregation the facility was converted into J.C. Cook Elementary School.
James Ruse Agricultural High School (colloquially known as Ruse or JR) is a government co-educational academically selective and specialist secondary day school, located in the Sydney suburb of Carlingford, New South Wales, Australia. The school is also one of four New South Wales Government agricultural high schools. The school ranked first among all New South Wales high schools in the Higher School Certificate for 27 consecutive years from 1996 to 2022, and has placed second behind North Sydney Boys High School since 2023. It has consistently ranked first nationally in the national government NAPLAN tests since their introduction. As of 2025, there are approximately 857 students enrolled at James Ruse in Year 7 through to Year 12.James Ruse is an academically selective high school; admission to James Ruse in Year 7 is only through the Selective High Schools Test, which is open to all Year 6 NSW students. A small number of students from other high schools are accepted in Year 8, 9, 10 and 11, through application made directly to the school. In 2025, approximately 97% of the student population came from a language background other than English. The school has an Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage (ICESA) of 1222, with the school sitting in the 99th percentile compared to the national average of 1000.
William P. Clements High School, more commonly known as Clements High School, is a public high school in Sugar Land, Texas. Named after former Texas governor Bill Clements, Clements High School is a part of the Fort Bend Independent School District. The school serves most of First Colony and a portion of Telfair. It previously served sections of Riverstone until district rezoning prior to the 2014–2015 school year. Clements High School has been recognized by Texas Monthly magazine in its list of the top high schools in the state of Texas. In US News magazine's 2018 ranking of United States high schools, Clements was ranked 446th out of 27,000 high schools nationwide. In 2010 and 2011, Clements High School was rated "exemplary" by the Texas Education Agency.
Miami Central Senior High School is a secondary school located at 1781 NW 95th Street in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, Florida. Its current principal is Raymond Sands. Miami Central opened in 1959. Its school mascot and colors were chosen in honor of NASA and the inception of its space program, which was an event at the time of the school's opening. In the early 1990s, the school acquired a computer science magnet program, placed as part of the district's initiative to devote school space to certain magnet programs so as to attract minority students to less diverse schools. The school serves most of the northern fringes of the city of Miami, as well as parts of North Miami, Opa-locka, the village of Miami Shores, and the village of El Portal.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
MORE →Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.