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New Haven rejected plans for the nation’s first Black college almost 200 years ago. Today, the city is weighing an apology

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By Dawn Sawyer, CNN (CNN) — The New Haven Museum in Connecticut displays a collection of libraries in a recreated walkthrough of the city’s 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. But one bookshelf stands empty throughout those 300 years: what would have been the 1831 shelf of publications from the College of Black Youth. New Haven had the opportunity to create what would have been the nation’s first Black college almost 200 years ago, but White resident…
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