The name Adams Morgan - once hyphenated - is derived from the names of two formerly segregated area elementary schools - the older , all-black Thomas P. Morgan Elementary School ( now defunct ) and the all-white John Quincy Adams Elementary School .
It is derived from the names of two , formerly segregated area elementary schools-the older , all-black Thomas P. Morgan Elementary School ( now defunct ) and the all-white John Quincy Adams Elementary School .