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Blackwell School NHS Ribbon Cutting
Former NPS Director Chuck Sams, Former Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, and BSA Founding President Joe Cabezuela at Blackwell School NHS Ribbon Cutting | Photo by Sarah M. Vazquez

Blackwell School National Historic Site | Kyle Groetzinger/NPCA

Celebrating Our History

Blackwell School NHS Ribbon Cutting
Former NPS Director Chuck Sams, Former Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, and BSA Founding President Joe Cabezuela at Blackwell School NHS Ribbon Cutting | Photo by Sarah M. Vazquez
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The Blackwell School Alliance
Uplifting Undertold Stories, Completing American History

The Blackwell School Alliance is a non-profit organization based in Marfa, Texas working to defend and amplify the experiences of the Mexican-American public school experience during the era of de facto segregation.
The Blackwell School is the former de facto segregated school for Mexican-American school children in Marfa that operated from 1909 until 1966, and is currently operated as a museum.
On October 17, 2022, the Blackwell School was designated a National Historic Site as a unit of the National Park Service. In July 2024, the site was transferred to the National Park Service, which has since assumed operations of the Blackwell School National Historic Site.

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