Jackson Junior College
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jackson-junior-college-277-7645056
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Jackson Junior College
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Jackson Junior College, in Marianna, Florida, county seat of Jackson County, opened its doors in 1961. It was one of eleven black junior colleges founded in the late 1950s at the initiative of the Florida Legislature. Since racial integration in schools was prohibited in the Florida Constitution of 1885 then in effect, the Legislature wished to avoid the integration mandated in the unanimous Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision of 1954 by demonstrating that a "separate but equal" h
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1961-1966 segregated college in Florida
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Junior_College
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2023-08-29T02:20:29Z
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