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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.
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.
17 de may. de 2024 · 5 min. On the first day of school in September 1950, Gardner L. Bishop led a group of 11 Black students into Sousa Junior High School in Southeast Washington. The school, which had just...
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.
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15 de nov. de 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...
4 de mar. de 2020 · A key thread in this history’s fabric is Spingarn High School, named for educator and writer Joel Elias Spingarn, a Jewish civil rights activist, who served as board chair, treasurer and president of the NAACP.
