Qualla: Weston Colored School https://qualla.com/weston-colored-school en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/y/weston-colored-school-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Weston Colored School https://qualla.com/weston-colored-school Weston Colored School: Introduction https://qualla.com/weston-colored-school/ Photo credit Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Weston Colored School was built in 1882 to teach the African-American children of Weston, West Virginia, because the white schools of Lewis County would not admit them. The building still stands - a single-story rubbed red brick structure on a fieldstone foundation, modest in scale, located on a quiet street in downtown Weston - and it kept teaching Black children continuously for seventy-two years, from the year it was built until the year the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision finally made school segregation unconstitutional in 1954. The teachers who taught here, the students who learned here, and the building itself together form one of the more important small pieces of African-American history surviving in central West Virginia.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/y/weston-colored-school-wp/dnyy-weston-colored-school-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Weston Colored School: Why Such a School Existed https://qualla.com/weston-colored-school/ Photo credit Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 4.0. Weston in 1882 was a small, prosperous county seat in a state that had been admitted to the Union in 1863 over the question of slavery. West Virginia had separated from Confederate Virginia precisely because its western residents would not fight for slavery; nonetheless, the stat...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/y/weston-colored-school-wp/dnyy-weston-colored-school-why-such-a-school-existed.mp3 0:06 2 full Weston Colored School: The Building and Its Expansion https://qualla.com/weston-colored-school/ Photo credit Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 4.0. The original 1882 structure was a single rectangular room of rubbed red brick set on a fieldstone foundation. The brickwork is plain, the proportions modest, the architectural ambition limited - a working schoolhouse, not a civic monument. In 1928 the school was expanded by 12.5 ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/y/weston-colored-school-wp/dnyy-weston-colored-school-the-building-and-its-expansion.mp3 0:06 3 full Weston Colored School: What the Teachers Taught https://qualla.com/weston-colored-school/ Photo credit Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Black schools of West Virginia operated under the legal and financial constraints of Jim Crow but in many cases produced excellent results. Teachers were often highly credentialed - West Virginia State, in particular, supplied a network of well-trained Black educators across ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/y/weston-colored-school-wp/dnyy-weston-colored-school-what-the-teachers-taught.mp3 0:06 4 full Weston Colored School: 1954 and What Came After https://qualla.com/weston-colored-school/ Photo credit Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 4.0. On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education and ruled that legally segregated public schools were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional. West Virginia, unlike many southern states, moved relatively quickly to comply. The Weston Colored Schoo...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/y/weston-colored-school-wp/dnyy-weston-colored-school-1954-and-what-came-after.mp3 0:06 5 full Weston Colored School: On the Register, in the Memory https://qualla.com/weston-colored-school/ Photo credit Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Weston Colored School was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. It is also part of the Weston Downtown Residential Historic District, listed in 2005, which protects a larger neighborhood of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century buildings around it. The ...

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