The Blackwell School in Marfa is set to become a national historic site that supporters say will explore the often untold story of how school segregation played out in this corner of the U.S. | via MarfaRadio
The racism of this system was evident even in Blackwell's classroom rules: White teachers often banned Hispanic students from speaking Spanish. Jonna Perrillo, professor at the University of Texas at El Paso,"Or put in closets, or given demerits for speaking Spanish, even on the playground," she said."And this was policy."
Despite these painful memories, some former Blackwell students also look back fondly on their time there. That's because, they say, they received a good education, one they might have not had access to without the school. "It's a mosaic of everybody's experience who came here, and we shouldn't be afraid of that complexity," she says.
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