Notice2024-16073
Blackwell School National Historic Site
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Published
July 23, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
As authorized by the Blackwell School National Historic Site Act, the National Park Service announces that the Secretary of the Interior has established, in the State of Texas, the Blackwell School National Historic Site as a unit of the National Park System.
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<title>Federal Register, Volume 89 Issue 141 (Tuesday, July 23, 2024)</title>
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 141 (Tuesday, July 23, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 59771]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-16073]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-IMR-BLSC-NPS0037689; PX.XXIMRC63.00.1-244-PPIMFODA00]
Blackwell School National Historic Site
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: As authorized by the Blackwell School National Historic Site
Act, the National Park Service announces that the Secretary of the
Interior has established, in the State of Texas, the Blackwell School
National Historic Site as a unit of the National Park System.
ADDRESSES: A color version and more detailed area maps depicting the
boundary are available online at <a href="https://www.nps.gov/blsc/planyourvisit/maps.htm">https://www.nps.gov/blsc/planyourvisit/maps.htm</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lance Hatten, Deputy Regional
Director, National Park Service, Intermountain Region at 303-969-2500.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On October 17, 2022, President Biden signed
into law the Blackwell School National Historic Site Act (Pub. L. 117-
206), designating the Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas, as a unit of
the National Park System. The Blackwell School was a segregated school
constructed in Marfa, Texas in 1909. The school was the sole public
education institution for hundreds of Marfa's Mexican-American children
until its closure in 1965 following the integration of the Marfa
Independent School District (ISD). Blackwell School serves as a
tangible reminder of the period during which the doctrine of ``separate
but equal'' dominated education and social systems, and that de facto
segregation of Mexican-American children was perpetuated in Texas
school districts through the mid-twentieth century.
The statute provides that Blackwell School National Historic Site
shall be established as a unit of the National Park System once the
Secretary determines that a sufficient quantity of land, or interests
in land, has been acquired to constitute a manageable park unit.
The National Park Service has acquired all 0.77 acres within the
proposed historic site boundary, encompassing the core area of
Blackwell School. On July 17, 2024, the Secretary of the Interior
signed a Decision Memorandum determining that the Marfa Independent
School District has entered into a donation agreement with the National
Park Service and that a sufficient quantity of land, or interests in
land, has been acquired to constitute a manageable park unit. With the
signing of this Decision Memorandum by the Secretary and the
publication of this notice in the Federal Register, Blackwell School
National Historic Site is established.
Charles F. Sams, III,
Director, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 2024-16073 Filed 7-22-24; 8:45 am]
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