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Date(s) - 02/24/2019
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

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Rockville Memorial Library, 21 Maryland Ave., will host a free talk, “Rockville’s Role in the Education of African Americans” by historian Ralph Buglass, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Until the mid-20th century, schools in Rockville, as well as Montgomery County, were segregated. Rockville played a major part in ever-increasing educational opportunities for African-American students, from a post-Civil War Freedmen’s Bureau school in a church basement to the only high school for black students in the county. In between, William B. Gibbs Jr., a Rockville educator, and his then-little-known attorney, Thurgood Marshall, paved the way for equal pay for black teachers in one of the first legal challenges to segregated schooling. For more, visit .