Blackwell School National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)

Blackwell School National Historic Site • Texas

cream colored building with two windows and a wooden doorway with steps leading up to it.

Written by prejudice rather than law, the story of the Blackwell School is one of “separate but equal” education for Mexican and Mexican American citizens of Marfa, Texas. Built in 1909, the school serves as a significant example of how racism and cultural disparity dominated education and social systems in the United States during this period of de facto segregation from 1889-1965.