Venable High School

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Venable High School is the former name for Venable Elementary School when it served as Charlottesville's high school for African-Americans. The school was closed in the fall of 1958[1] when city schools were closed rather than comply with orders to desegregate.

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  1. "Modern Virginia Interviews." The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Virginia's History Since the Civil War. Web. 20 Apr. 2010. <http://www.vahistory.org/xslt/servlet/XSLTServlet?xml=/xml_docs/modernva/modernva_transcripts.xml&xsl=/xml_docs/modernva/interview_modernva.xsl&level=single&id=Raymond_Bell>.

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