The Charles Sumner School, [between 1980 and 2006]

ID: 1970 ~ Source: Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2011634655/. (Accessed January 03, 2017.)

This file appears in: Charles Sumner School: Named for the famed abolitionist, the Sumner School was one of DC's first buildings dedicated to Black public education.

Highsmith, Carol M, photographer. Sumner School, named for U.S. Senator Charles Sumner, Washington, D.C. [Between 1980 and 2006] Image.

This file appears in: Charles Sumner School: Named for the famed abolitionist, the Sumner School was one of DC's first buildings dedicated to Black public education.

Charles Sumner School: Named for the famed abolitionist, the Sumner School was one of DC's first buildings dedicated to Black public education.

By The DC Historic Sites team

The Sumner School is one of three post-Civil War Black schools in DC and is named in honor of Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts Senator and ardent abolitionist who attempted, unsuccessfully, to ban…