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Colored Orphan Asylum

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In 1836, three Quakers, Anna and Hanna Shotwell and Mary Murray, founded the Colored Orphan Asylum to provide assistance to homeless black children in New York City. This was the first establishment made for homeless black children in America. It was…

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