"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.
- ISBN10 1613740093
- ISBN13 9781613740095
- Publish Date 1 August 2013 (first published 1 January 2013)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 16 January 2017
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Chicago Review Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English