Category:Howard Colored Orphan Asylum

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<nowiki>Howard Colored Orphan Asylum; Orfanato de color Howard; orphanage for African Americans; مدرسة في الولايات المتحدة; Howard Orphanage and Industrial School; Home for Freed Children and Others</nowiki>
Howard Colored Orphan Asylum 
orphanage for African Americans
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LocationCrown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City, New York
Inception
  • 1866
Date of official closure
  • 1918
Map40° 40′ 33.96″ N, 73° 56′ 09.6″ W
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The Howard Colored Orphan Asylum, later the Howard Orphanage and Industrial School, was one of the few orphanages and schools to be led by and for African Americans.