The Pompano Colored School, also known as the Pompano Beach Colored School, was located at 718 NW Sixth Street,

Pompano Beach, Florida Pompano Beach ( ) is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. It is located along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, just north of Fort Lauderdale. The nearby Hillsboro Inlet forms part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. As of the 2020 ...

. Pompano's first school for colored students, a two-room wooden building on the 400 block of Hammondville Road (today Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd), was destroyed in the

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. It was replaced in 1928 by a two-story, six-classroom building, with library, assembly hall, and separate office for the principal. The

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provided matching funds to those raised by the African-American community; Broward County also contributed. Principal was Blanche Ely, who spearheaded efforts for its construction. It was originally for grades one through six, and later expanded to the 11th grade. In 1954, it was renamed Coleman Elementary School, in honor of Reverend James Emanuel Coleman, pastor of Pompano's Mount Calvary Baptist Church. The school closed in 1970, with school desegregation. It was demolished in 1972 and the site is now Coleman Park. There is a historical marker.

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