Sumner School, tower detail from south, May 1978
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Credit: William T. Webb, Jr., photographer, from Board of Education Room 1114, Presidential Building
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.
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…