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The Institute for Colored Youth, Philadelphia, PA, circa 1900.
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Credit: From Fanny Jackson Coppin, Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching, 1913.

Originally located in Philadelphia as a Quaker-supported charitable school for African-American youth, the Institute for Colored Youth offered aspiring black teachers and students an outstanding education tied to a program of economic and social progress for the race.

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