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New Haven Rejected Plans For The Nation’s First Black College Almost 200 Years Ago. Today, The City Is Weighing An Apology

By Dawn Sawyer, CNN (CNN) — The New Haven Museum in Connecticut displays a collection of libraries in a recreated walkthrough of the city’s 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. But one bookshelf stands empty throughout those 300 years: what would have been the 1831 shelf of publications from the College of Black Youth. New Haven had […]

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