Black History Month… The relics of ‘separate but equal’
By Lorna Hart - Special to OVP
The former Langston School which was located in Point Pleasant. (Chris Rizer | Courtesy)
Photo of the former “West Virginia Colored Institute.” (Used with permission from the WV State University Archives)
Pictured is what remains of the former “Kerrs Run Colored School.” (Shannon Scott, Meigs County Historical Society | Courtesy)
Pictured is the former Lincoln School of Gallipolis, Ohio. (Gallia County Historical Society| Courtesy)
Terms of freedom
Freedmen’s Bureau, (1865–1872): The popular name for the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to provide practical aid to four million newly freed African Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom.