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A Failed Black Upper Class Project to “Reform” Poor Black Girls
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
18 Mar 2019
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Between 1919 and 1939, the National Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs attempted to run a school for “wayward” Black girls called the Efland Home, in North Carolina. Girls ran away and rejected the regimen, and the facility was finally closed. “I think Efland shows that, just because people are of the same race does not mean that they are of the same community,” said Lauren Henley, a doctoral student studying history at the University of Texas, at Austin, who wrote about the Efland saga for Souls, A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society.

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