Armstrong Manual Training School

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Armstrong Manual Training School
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Armstrong Manual Training School (also known as the Samuel Chapman Armstrong Technical High School) located at 1st & P Streets, NW in the Truxton Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Designed by local architect Waddy B. Wood in 1902, the Renaissance Revival building was one of two segregated manual training schools constructed for the city's African-American youth. The school was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, Armstrong Manual Training School and M Street High School were the only two high schools in DC that admitted black students. From its founding, Armstrong operated as an important institution and symbol for…