Lake School

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This article is about the American elementary school. For the 19th century English poets in the Lake District, see Lake Poets.
Lake School
Address
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2410 North 19th Street

elementary school
Established1888 (1888)
Closed1978 (1978)
School districtOmaha Public Schools
Grades1-8

Lake School was a

grade eight.[1]
It closed in the 1970s.

History

Built in 1888, Lake started in an 1879 two-room frame schoolhouse opened in 1879, making it one of the oldest schools in the Omaha School District. It was a two-and-a-half story brick building with a peaked roofline and decorative elements at the peaks. There was a bell tower protruding from the top of one part of the east side of the building.[2]

The school's first principal was Emma Whitmore, who locked the names of the first graduates in a metal box, and had them buried beneath a new tree at the school. The key was then attached by ribbon to a pigeon released to an unknown destination.[3]

The second building was replaced in 1910.

When it was built, the surrounding neighborhood was a predominantly white community with several European immigrant populations, including Russian Jews, Scandinavians, Italians and others, as well as a nascent African American population. In 1919, rioting after the

US Army intervened and established the city's first official redlining, and ensuing white flight over the next several years resulted in Lake School's student population and surrounding neighborhood becoming more predominantly African American.[4]

By 1976, the school population was almost entirely African American. That year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in United States of America v. The School District of Omaha that

Seventh-day Adventist church in 1984 and operated as a private school in 1984. After operating for approximately 15 years, it was closed.[5]

Today, the third Lake School serves as an apartment complex called Fullwood Square.

See also

References

  1. ^ (n.d.) Excerpts from Interviews - Evelyn Montgomery Archived 2007-12-11 at the Wayback Machine Crestridge School of International/Global Studies, Omaha Public Schools. Retrieved 9/11/07.
  2. ^ "Lake School". Nebraska Memories. State of Nebraska. Retrieved 3/27/15.
  3. ^ Omaha Public Library Omaha History Clipping File - Elementary Schools, Public - Lake School.
  4. ^ "A History of Segregated Schools in Omaha, Nebraska," Adam Fletcher Sasse, NorthOmahaHistory.com.
  5. ^ "A History of Lake School," Adam Fletcher Sasse, NorthOmahaHistory.com. Retrieved 1/19/23.

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