The Jamaica School War

Gelany Cobb: My father and mother have paid taxes in jamaica for 80 years. Yet my children are denied a place in the school near my home, he says. In 18 95, samuel b sisco led a group of black parents from jamaica up to the white school to try to enroll their kids. They were turned away, so they sued theJamaica school board. Thus began what the papers called the jamaica school war.