Desegregating the District (Map Style Example) by Jennifer Myers https://padlet.com/greyskymornings/DesegregatingtheDistrict Note: By using this map style, students can explore local events geographically by clicking each of the location markers below. New location events can be added collaboratively by students throughout their unit of study or compiled beforehand. Use the new post tool to add dates, text, photographs, videos, articles, and/or hyperlinks to each event. This style could even be used as an extra credit project for local students to visit key sites in person and upload their own photographs or research. en-us 2022-01-22 22:31:22 UTC 2022-02-07 05:08:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3eb.png Dunbar High School, N Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA greyskymornings https://padlet.com/greyskymornings/DesegregatingtheDistrict/wish/2006718379 Dunbar High School:
Paul Laurence Dunbar is the first high school to serve African-Americans in the United States. 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 teachers developed generations of high-achieving African Americans, groundbreakers that included the first black member of a presidential cabinet, the first black graduate of the US Naval Academy and the legal mastermind behind school desegregation.

Check out Alison Stewart's book, "First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America's First Black Public High School" here: http://alisonstewart.net/?page_id=228 ]]> 2022-01-22 22:43:10 UTC https://padlet.com/greyskymornings/DesegregatingtheDistrict/wish/2006718379 Dunbar High School, N Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA greyskymornings https://padlet.com/greyskymornings/DesegregatingtheDistrict/wish/2006719591 The nation's first black public high school, Paul Laurence Dunbar High, opened its doors in Washington, D.C., in 1870. But more than 140 years later, Dunbar — like many urban schools — has fallen on hard times. The crumbling, brutalist-style building is often described as a prison, and graduation rates hover around 60 percent.

But it wasn't always that way. Once upon a time, the yearbook read like a Who's Who of black America.
]]> 2022-01-22 22:46:11 UTC https://padlet.com/greyskymornings/DesegregatingtheDistrict/wish/2006719591 Charles Sumner School, 17th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA greyskymornings https://padlet.com/greyskymornings/DesegregatingtheDistrict/wish/2006720697 This historic site was one of the first public schools in the nation for African American children and currently houses records and artifacts related to DC Public School history and serves as a cultural venue, hosting programs, events, and exhibitions.]]> 2022-01-22 22:49:39 UTC https://padlet.com/greyskymornings/DesegregatingtheDistrict/wish/2006720697 Supreme Court of the United States, First Street Northeast, Washington, DC, USA greyskymornings https://padlet.com/greyskymornings/DesegregatingtheDistrict/wish/2006722256 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education]]> 2022-01-22 22:53:37 UTC https://padlet.com/greyskymornings/DesegregatingtheDistrict/wish/2006722256 Sousa Middle School, Ely Place Southeast, Washington, DC, USA greyskymornings https://padlet.com/greyskymornings/DesegregatingtheDistrict/wish/2006823997 The D.C. Board of Education denied a petition by a group of parents in Anacostia to racially integrate John Phillip Sousa Junior High School. The following year, in 1950, the parents sought admission to the all-white school for 11 African-American children. When the request was again denied by the Board, a Howard University law professor brought a lawsuit. The claim was dismissed by the trial court.]]> 2022-01-23 03:37:21 UTC https://padlet.com/greyskymornings/DesegregatingtheDistrict/wish/2006823997 Taft Junior High School, Perry Street Northeast, Washington, DC, USA greyskymornings https://padlet.com/greyskymornings/DesegregatingtheDistrict/wish/2006827360 In an excerpt from his new memoir This African-American Life, former president of the National Urban League Hugh B. Price describes his elementary and secondary education in Washington, D.C. Price focused on his studies and dreamed of playing major-league baseball—all while he and his schoolmates made history in some of the city’s first integrated classrooms after the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.]]> 2022-01-23 03:45:28 UTC https://padlet.com/greyskymornings/DesegregatingtheDistrict/wish/2006827360 Anacostia High School, 16th Street Southeast, Washington, DC, USA greyskymornings https://padlet.com/greyskymornings/DesegregatingtheDistrict/wish/2006828333 After Bolling: School Desegregation in DC

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