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Girard College opens
North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Endowed by the country's richest man for poor white orphan boys, a restriction fought over for a century. Cecil B. Moore led seven months of picketing at its ten-foot wall before a federal court desegregated it in 1968.
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