First class
Subtitle: the legacy of Dunbar, America's first Black public high school
By: Alison Stewart ; foreword by Melissa Harris-Perry
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781613740095
Subjects: Dunbar High School (Washington, D.C.); History; Education; African Americans; High schools
Description: "An analysis of the first US high school for African Americans, the publication of which will coincide with the opening of the school's new facility"--

Dunbar High School in Washington, DC, defied the odds and, in the process, changed America. In the first half of the twentieth century, Dunbar 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. These enormous challenges did not stop the local community from rallying for the cause of educating its children. Stewart tells the story of the school's rise, fall, and path toward resurgence as it looks to reopen its new, state-of-the-art campus in the fall of 2013.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-327) and index.
Table of contents: title: It is what it is; title: Teaching to teach; title: The law giveth and the law taketh away; title: It's the principal; title: Bricks and mortarboards; title: Old school; title: Chromatics; title: Coming of age; title: Right to serve; title: Bolling, not Brown; title: Elite versus elitism; title: New school; title: Children left behind; title: From Bed-Stuy to Shaw; title: The fall; title: New new school; title: Back to the future.