Froebel School

ID: 2921 ~ Source: Randolph S. Bourne, The Gary Schools (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1916), via Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/garyschools00bourgoog/page/n16/mode/2up ~ Date: 1916

This file appears in: The Experience of Manual Laborers: At the Bottom of the Rail in Gary

The Froebel School circa 1916. Both Black and white students attended the school, though Black students were segregated and excluded from many facilities and extracurricular activities.

This file appears in: The Experience of Manual Laborers: At the Bottom of the Rail in Gary

The Experience of Manual Laborers: At the Bottom of the Rail in Gary

By Gary Public Library and Rebecca Shrum, Discover Indiana

In 1910, 49.1% of Gary’s population was born outside the U.S. 71% of the population was either foreign-born or born in the U.S. with at least one parent who was born outside the U.S. Most of the manual workers at Gary Works were immigrants from…