Colored School Libraries

Colored School Libraries

Collected here are histories of segregated libraries in Black communities from the 1920s through the end of the 1960s.  

Goose Creek Colored School and George Washington Carver High School

Segregated service to the Goose Creek (Baytown) community from 1928 to 1948.

Independence Gardens, Fairbanks Colored School, and Savannah J. Collier Branch Libraries

Segregated and desegregated service to the Independence Gardens/Carverdale communities from 1923 to 1978

La Porte Colored School

Segregated service to the La Porte community from 1924 to 1951.