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Spingarn High School opened in 1952, as a new and modern segregated high school for African American students. It was the last segregated high school built in Washington, DC, just two years before the U.S. Supreme Court ended school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education.
Spingarn High School owes its existence to two factors: a tradition and a trend. The tradition was a segregated school system, the trend was the rapid increase in the school age population among Negroes in the northeast section of the District of Columbia.
Learn about the history and architecture of Spingarn, the last segregated high school in Washington, DC, named after a prominent NAACP leader. See images, map, and related tours and sources.
Mar 4, 2020 · Spingarn High School, named for a civil rights activist, is a historic and abandoned schoolhouse in D.C. that could be renovated for public charter schools and other uses. The author argues that the government should support the school's revival and provide more funding for charter facilities.
Join your DC Dude as he takes a close up look at historic Spingarn High Schools decaying structure, enlightening history, and some of the legends that found there start here.
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Nov 15, 2023 · A new era of learning is coming to D.C.’s old Spingarn High School. Mayor Muriel Bowser, other city leaders and proud alums of the historic school gathered to “break ground” on what will be...
Built between 1951 and 1952, Spingarn High School was constructed for the education of African American students, meant to relieve the overcrowding of the other segregated high schools and had been planned for that purpose since the late 1930s.…
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