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Portrait of an African American School in the Time of Jim Crow

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Sharptown Colored School
Credit State of Maryland

San Domingo is a small African American community just west of Salisbury, MD. And, there among the tall trees sits what was once the Sharptown Colored School. Built in 1919 it was one of some 5,000 such schools built for African Americans during the time of Jim Crow. Delmarva Public Radio's Don Rush has this look at the school and the community it served.

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Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.