Editing Shelbyville, Indiana (section)

== Education ==
Shelbyville Central Schools consists of [[Shelbyville Senior High School]], Shelbyville Middle School, and three lower grades / elementary schools in neighborhoods: Coulston Elementary, Loper Elementary, and Hendricks Elementary.

St Joseph Elementary School is a private / parochial school, associated with the St Joseph [[Roman Catholic Church]].

Until 1870 (five years after the [[American Civil War]] and midway into the [[Reconstruction era]] for the emancipated Southern slaves, now called freedmen), no public education was provided for Shelbyville's black residents. In that year, the state of Indiana required communities to provide free public education for all children, similar to that already available in most Eastern states since the 1840s, but allowed the various towns and counties to choose whether they would be racially integrated as in the [[Northern United States|North]], or segregated as in the [[Southern United States|South]] where the enactment of a series of discrimination laws marked the start of the "[[Jim Crow]]" era from the [[1880s]]. In the [[Midwest]] region town of Shelbyville, schools were racially integrated at the high school level but segregated in the lower elementary grades until 1949, five years before the landmark unanimous decision of the [[United States Supreme Court]] in ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' in May 1954 to outlaw legal segregation.<ref name="Getting Open">{{cite book |last1=Graham |first1=Tom |title=Getting Open The Unknown Story of Bill Garrett and the Integration of College Basketball |last2=Cody |first2=Rachel |date=2006 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-22046-2 |location=Bloomington and Indianapolis |pages=5,196}}</ref>