The Street Manual Training School was a historic

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school in

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. The campus comprised over , but most of it was sold after the school closed in 1971. The remaining campus contains seven buildings constructed between 1906 and 1964 as well as a circa 1943 water tower. The school was listed on the

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on July 28, 1999.

School

The school was founded in 1904 by Emmanuel M. Brown. Brown, a graduate of Snow Hill Normal and Industrial InstituteTwenty-Five Years in the Black Belt by William James Edwards and

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, was a proponent of the ideas of

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. He was dedicated to improving the quality of life for African Americans in Dallas County during the

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era of racial segregation. Brown modeled his school on the

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. He lived onsite from the beginning of the school, serving as the headmaster until his death in 1960. ''See also:''

References

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