 The earliest school for African American children in Gary was built in 1908 as a one-room building on Twelfth Avenue and Massachusetts Street the same year that the city's school board made the decision to segregate its public schools.Students at the Twelfth Avenue school and those attending another school at Fourteenth Avenue and Connecticut Street were moved to Frederick Froebel School at Fifteenth and Madison Street.Beginning in 1915, as Gary's population grew, some African American students transferred to portable classrooms on Twenty-first Avenue and Adams Street, as well as other segregated schools.