Overcrowded segregated schooling (double shifts)

CTL-E-1278 · Practice · other · 1920–1969

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Black Belt schools running double (two four-hour) shifts per day to handle enrollment surges from the Great Migration, with vocational tracking and stark resource gaps versus white schools.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-009; source research type(s): practice.

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