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Military Road School: This school relates the struggles of Black people for accessible, public education in DC.
Established in 1864 to educate free people of color, the Military Road School was formerly located on Military Road, which connected DC’s Civil War forts. In particular, the Military Road School was…
National Training School for Women and Girls
Founded in 1909, the National Training School for Women and Girls educated Black women from around the world. Unlike other prominent Black schools, such as the Tuskegee Institute, the founders did not…
Elizabeth G. Randall Junior High School (Cardozo School): Built in 1906, the Randall School represents an important era in African American education and now houses the Rubell Museum.
Established in 1906 as Cardozo Elementary School, the building became the home of Elizabeth G. Randall Junior High School in 1927, and was repeatedly expanded to meet the educational needs of…
Robert Gould Shaw Junior High School: From vocational training to junior high school to senior housing, this building demonstrates adaptive reuse.
Originally the William McKinley Manual Training School, this 1902 building served as the white counterpart to Armstrong Manual Training School, which offered vocational training for Black students.…
John Philip Sousa Junior High School: This middle school stands as the epicenter of a critical battle in desegregating public education.
John Philip Sousa Junior High (now Middle) School, built in 1950, stands as a symbol of the lengthy conflict over the desegregation of public schools and the beginning of the modern civil rights…
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…
Daniel Webster School: This 12-room schoolhouse typifies the city’s post-Civil War public schools and is one of the last such buildings downtown.
Typical of DC's post-Civil War red brick schoolhouses, the Daniel Webster School shows how mass-production and technology influenced the design of civic buildings in an era of great public works. It…
John Fox Slater School: This building illustrates DC school design in the 1880s and 1890s.
Completed in 1891 for African American students by the city's Office of the Building Inspector, the John Fox Slater School was designed in a Queen Anne/Romanesque Revival style. The former school…
John Mercer Langston School: This building is an exceptional example of an African American school built during DC’s segregated school system era.
John Mercer Langston School was built in 1902 to handle the overflow of students from neighboring John Fox Slater School. Named for John Mercer Langston (1829-1897), the first African American…
Bunker Hill Elementary School: This Colonial Revival style building is one of the District's best examples of an “extensible” school.
Established in 1883, Bunker Hill Elementary School's first building, a one-room brick structure, was used to educate white students before being reassigned to the city’s “colored” school division. A…