Post: In eighteen seventy. Just five years after the Civil War, a school called the Preparatory High School for Colored Youth opened in Washington, D. C. It became the first public high school for black students in the United States. Now, the school started in the basement of Fifteen Street Presbyterian Church. That's what was available, and they made it work. This schools made possible by William Sigh facts, the first president of DC's Board of Trustees for Colored Schools, which was established in eighteen sixty eight. He fought for this school to exist and for black students receive the same education as their white peers. By the eighteen nineties, the school had a staff full of black scholars. One of them was an Anna Julia Cooper, who later became the principal, and nineteen twenty five, she became one of the first black woman in US history to earn a Ph. D. And most left. Schools were underfunded and overcrowded. This school here taught Latin, calculus, literature, and science, and colleges around the country took notice too, including Ivy League schools, and they actively recruited from this school even during segregation. Now the school was renamed M. Street High School in eighteen ninety one and Dunbar High School in nineteen sixteen. This was an honor of the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. This facility right behind the. Open in twenty thirteen. But make no mistake, it's more in just a school building. This is a monument of What happens when students are believed in, invested in, and expected to lead Tom Bar High School, the first public high school for Black students in the United States of America, right here in the nation's capital. How's that for some black history share, believe, inspire, lax, be.

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