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Southern school boards refused to build black high schools because most whites believed blacks were racially incapable of advanced learning. This belief was shared by northern white philanthropists who in the beginning of the decade funded a program of black industrial education that was to take the place of high school. Industrial education was designed to prepare African Americans for low-wage positions in the industrial workplace. Industrial high schools taught carpentry, auto mechanics, bricklaying, sewing, laundry working, cooking, and metalworking but almost never literature, mathematics, or history. When New Orleans planned an industrial high school in 1930, the school had no classrooms assigned for traditional academic subjects. The Times Picayune explained that industrial education alone would "render the Negro youth more efficient in their chosen tasks and lead them into settled and stable occupations." As the Depression worsened and increasing numbers of blacks migrated from...
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