Pompano Colored School
The Pompano Colored School, also known as the Pompano Beach Colored School, was located at 718 NW Sixth Street, Pompano Beach, Florida. Pompano's first school for colored students, a two-room wooden building on the 400 block of Hammondville Road (today Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd), was destroyed in the 1926 Miami hurricane. It was replaced in 1928 by a two-story, six-classroom building, with library, assembly hall, and separate office for the principal. The Rosenwald Fund provided matching funds to those raised by the African-American community; Broward County also contributed. Principal Blanche Ely spearheaded efforts for its construction. It was originally for grades one through six, and later expanded to the 11th grade. In 1954, it was renamed Coleman Elementary School, in honor of Reverend James Emanuel Coleman, pastor of Pompano's Mount Calvary Baptist Church.
The school closed in 1970, with school desegregation. It was demolished in 1972 and the site is now Coleman Park. There is a historical marker.[1][2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ Puleo, Marie (October 30, 2018). "COLORED SCHOOL HISTORIC MARKER UNVEILING". Pompano! Magazine.
- ^ d'Oliveira, Michael (September 14, 2018). "Pompano Colored School honored with marker" (PDF). The Pelican. pp. 1, 3, 14.
- ^ Hobby, Daniel T. (2012). "Schools of Pompano". Broward Legacy. pp. 21–25.
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