Verden Separate School

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Verden Separate School
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Location 315 E. Ada Sipuel Ave., Chickasha, Oklahoma
Coordinates 35°2′39″N97°55′43″W / 35.04417°N 97.92861°W / 35.04417; -97.92861 Coordinates: 35°2′39″N97°55′43″W / 35.04417°N 97.92861°W / 35.04417; -97.92861
Area less than one acre
NRHP reference # 05001416 [1]
Added to NRHP December 16, 2005

The Verden Separate School is a historic school building at 315 East Ada Sipuel Avenue in Chickasha, Oklahoma. A modest wood-frame gable-roofed one-room district schoolhouse that now serves as a local museum, it was built about 1915 on a farm on the outskirts of Verden. It served as a school for Verden's African American students under the separate but equal doctrine, which in Oklahoma resulted in the mandated creation of "separate schools" for whichever racial group was in the minority in a given district or region. It was used as a school until 1935, when its student population was consolidated into the Chickasha schools. It was then used as a farm outbuilding until the early 2000s, when it was rescued from demolition, moved to its present location, and restored. It is the only known surviving separate school in Grady County, and one of a few left in southwestern Oklahoma. [2]

Chickasha, Oklahoma City in Oklahoma, United States

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Verden, Oklahoma Town in Oklahoma, United States

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Separate but equal Legal doctrine used for Racial segregation in the United States

Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law according to which racial segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed "equal protection" under the law to all people. Under the doctrine, as long as the facilities provided to each race were equal, state and local governments could require that services, facilities, public accommodations, housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation be segregated by race, which was already the case throughout the states of the former Confederacy. The phrase was derived from a Louisiana law of 1890, although the law actually used the phrase "equal but separate".

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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