Seguin's Segregated Schools: Educating a Divided City

Seguin ran two entirely separate segregated school systems well into the 20th century — one for Black students, founded in 1871 by a Reconstruction-era church; one for children of Mexican descent, founded in 1903 — both still traceable on the ground today, decades after integration finally reached the city in the 1960s and 70s. This short drive lays out that history plainly: a Reconstruction-era church and the school it built, the parallel school built for Mexican-descent children a generation later, and the well-funded 1849 white school that had a fifty-year head start on both. No embellishment needed here — just the record, block by block.