Seattle Public Schools Half A Century Ago
The Changing Classroom
An abundance of jobs created by the defense industry, agrarian
technological improvements in the south, and the relative absence
of social ills in the Northwest contributed to the enormous wave of
Black migration to the Seattle area in the 1940s. The city's Black
population grew from 3,700 to 10,000 in less than three years,
bringing laborers and their families seeking employment. The
percentage of African American students in the Seattle Public
Schools began to rise dramatically.
Graduating sixth-grade class of 1947 at Horace
Mann Elementary School,
2410 East Cherry Street (present location of NOVA).
(#085-49)
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