The current project is a survey of the places that were
connected to the system of racially segregated (broadly
defined to include Jim Crow imposed segregation, self
imposed segregated schools initiated by member of the black
community and de facto segregation) schools established in
the northern United States. My particular interest is in
the regions of the northern “free” states that bordered the
slave states (sometimes known as the Up-South, just over
the line to freedom) as regions of unique concentrations of
black settlements during the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. Schools for the Colored is the representation of
my effort to memorialize these sites.
