Meyer Elementary School Students descend from the bus to attend Bannockburn Elementary School, ca. 1968

ID: 3972 ~ Source: Reprinted with permission from the DC Public Library, Star Collection, ©Washington Post

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Meyer Elementary School Students descend from the bus to attend Bannockburn Elementary School, ca. 1968

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Education - Meyer Elementary School, Experiment in Busing

Civil Rights Tour: Education - Meyer Elementary School, Experiment in Busing

For a few years beginning in September 1968, Eugene Meyer Elementary School on 11th Street in the Columbia Heights neighborhood was party to a little-known partnership with Bannockburn Elementary in the nearby suburb of Bethesda, Maryland. That…