Segregation & public facilities
The wall around Girard College
Opened 1848; first Black students admitted 11 September 1968Girard College, Girard and Corinthian Avenues, North Philadelphia, PA
Stephen Girard left $2 million for a school for "poor white male orphans" and ordered a ten-foot wall built around it. For 120 years it stood in the middle of Black North Philadelphia and admitted no Black child.
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