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  2. Boroughs of New York City - Wikipedia

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    The Boroughs of New York City are the five major governmental districts that compose New York City. The boroughs are the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Each borough is coextensive with a respective county of the State of New York: The Bronx is Bronx County, Brooklyn is Kings County, Manhattan is New York County, Queens ...

  3. Downtown Community School - Wikipedia

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    The Downtown Community School was an American experimental, cooperative, racially integrated school located at 235 East 11th Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, New York. The school was founded in 1944 and was closed in 1971. [1] Its mission was described as being to train children to “live and work together in understanding ...

  4. New York City school boycott - Wikipedia

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    The New York City school boycott, also referred to as Freedom Day, was a large-scale boycott and protest against segregation in the New York City public school system which took place on February 3, 1964. Students and teachers walked out to highlight the deplorable conditions at public schools in the city, and demonstrators held rallies ...

  5. Category:Defunct high schools in New York City - Wikipedia

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    D. Defunct high schools in Brooklyn ‎ (14 P) Defunct high schools in Manhattan ‎ (16 P) Defunct high schools in Queens, New York ‎ (6 P)

  6. School segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    e. School segregation in the United States was the segregation of students based on their ethnicity. While not prohibited from having schools, various minorities were barred from most schools, schools for whites. Segregation was enforced by formal legal systems in U.S. states primarily in the Southern United States, although elsewhere ...

  7. History of deaf education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The history of deaf education in the United States began in the early 1800s when the Cobbs School of Virginia, [1] an oral school, was established by William Bolling and John Braidwood, and the Connecticut Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, a manual school, was established by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc. [1]

  8. Sephardic Academy of Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    Sephardic Academy of Manhattan. / 40.76537; -73.96059. The Sephardic Academy of Manhattan (SAM) is a Jewish preschool and elementary school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, whose plan is to provide pre-K through middle school services. The SAM School’s mission is to provide students with a universal education that ...

  9. New York School (art) - Wikipedia

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    The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City. They often drew inspiration from surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular action painting, abstract expressionism, jazz, improvisational theater, experimental music, and the interaction of friends in the New York City art ...