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African Americans. Dunbar High School, high school in Washington, D.C., that was the first Black public high school in the United States. Since it opened in 1870, it has educated many notable figures, including surgeon Charles Richard Drew, jurist William Henry Hastie, Jr., and writer Jean Toomer.
Dunbar HS History. Dunbar Senior High School in Washington DC was established in 1870 and was the first public high school for African-Americans in the District of Columbia and the United States of America. Dunbar was initially called the Preparatory High School for Colored Youth and was founded by William Syphax, the first chairman of the ...
Dunbar High School, Washington DC in 1917. As the city established other high schools, it designated Dunbar as its academic high school, with other schools providing more vocational or technical training. Dunbar was known for its excellent academics, enough so that some black parents moved to Washington specifically so their children could ...
By 1891, the school became known as M Street High School when it moved to this new location. When it relocated again in 1916, the school was renamed for the noted African American poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906). As more high schools established in DC, Dunbar remained the city’s academic...
Apr 20, 2001 · If you were a black high school student in Washington in the 1930s, no further explanation is necessary. Dunbar was the one and only "academic high school" for D.C. blacks at a time...
Dunbar High School defied the odds and in the process changed America. In the first half of the twentieth century, Washington D.C’s Dunbar High was an academically elite public school, despite being racially segregated by law and existing at the mercy of racist congressmen who held the school’s purse strings. The school’s well-educated ...
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, which is named after the African American poet and playwright of the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries, is located at 101 N Street, NW in Ward 5.
