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- Booker_T._Washington_Junior_College comment "Booker T. Washington Junior College was established by the Escambia County school board in 1959. It was the first of twelve junior colleges established in Florida, at the initiative of the Legislature, to serve African-American Floridians. The context was the unanimous 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision mandating school desegregation, and the Legislature, heavily dominated by rural and racist north Florida, wished to show that "separate but equal" access to higher education was working.".