Abstract
At its peak of operations during the 1940s, Douglass School served around 300 students in grades K-10. Because an increasing number of parents chose to have their children attend the White junior high schools, the Parsons Board of Education voted in 1951 to eliminate Grades 9–10 at Douglass School due to declining enrollment.
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Patterson, J. (2015). The Final Days of Douglass School. In: Noblit, G.W. (eds) School Desegregation. Breakthroughs in the Sociology of Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-965-4_6
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