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Not surprised as Jacksonville was another city with a pretty strong Black middle class and Raines High used to be a very good HS serving the Black community. Dunbar High in DC was like that as well.
Not surprised as Jacksonville was another city with a pretty strong Black middle class and Raines High used to be a very good HS serving the Black community. Dunbar High in DC was like that as well.
I should of mention Stanton Prep for Jacksonville. Raines was later.
Interesting--however I think that simetime was referring to another example of a prosperous black community that was destroyed as a result of the sporadic outbreak of ethnic cleansing or racial pogroms of the late 19th/early 20th Centuries.
Interesting--however I think that simetime was referring to another example of a prosperous black community that was destroyed as a result of the sporadic outbreak of ethnic cleansing or racial pogroms of the late 19th/early 20th Centuries.
You are right, and that question stemmed from another post questioning why blacks can't do better in america
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