FIRST CLASS: THE LEGACY OF DUNBAR, AMERICA'S FIRST BLACK PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL Yucca Reprint edition (September 15

Reprint edition (September 15

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" --Cornel West

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FIRST CLASS: THE LEGACY OF DUNBAR, AMERICA'S FIRST BLACK PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL Yucca Reprint edition (September 15"An analysis of the first US high school for African Americans, the publication of which will coincide with the opening of the school's new facility" Dunbar High School in Washington, DC, defied the odds and, in the process, changed America. In the first half of the twentieth century, Dunbar was an academically elite public school, despite being racially segregated by law and existing at the mercy of racist congressmen who held the school's purse