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usmodernist.org usmodernist.org
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shielded from the street by per-forated brick screens.
architectural element described as shield
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Their children would learn in an atmosphere of con-trolled comfort, shielded by pat-terned brick walls from the sights and sounds (including an elevated railroad structure a few feet from the building) of the squalid slums outside
source for "squalid slums outside"
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content.time.com content.time.com
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darkest East Harlem.
Time magazine Sept 1966
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digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu
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As Harlem community leader Preston Wilcox asserted in 1966, “If one can believe that a predominantly ‘de facto segregated’ white school can be a ‘good school’, then, one must believe that a ‘de facto segregated’ and predominantly Negro and Puerto Rican school can also be a ‘good school.’”7
Preston Wilcox quote is here. Footnote refers to: "The Great School Wars" by Diane Ravitch (2000). See footnote on this page and google books here https://is.gd/WilcoxQuotedinRavitch
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harlemeducationhistory.library.columbia.edu harlemeducationhistory.library.columbia.edu
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With the school scheduled to open on April 1, 1966
source for original opening date
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timesmachine.nytimes.com timesmachine.nytimes.com
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Copyright © The New York Times
source for "shutting out noise, dirt and distraction" see section that begins "No Classroom Windows" on page 2
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