Bibliograph

First Class, The Legacy of Dunbar, America's First Black Public High School

Type

Label

First Class, The Legacy of Dunbar, America's First Black Public High School

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

First Class

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

857947608

Sub title

The Legacy of Dunbar, America's First Black Public High School

Summary

Combining a fascinating history of the first U.S. high school for African Americans with an unflinching analysis of urban public-school education today, First Class explores an underrepresented and largely unknown aspect of black history while opening a discussion on what it takes to make a public school successful. In 1870, in the wake of the Civil War, citizens of Washington, DC, opened the Preparatory High School for Colored Youth, the first black public high school in the United States; it would later be renamed Dunbar High and would flourish despite Jim Crow laws and segregation. D

Table Of Contents

Front Cover; Front Flap; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword by Melissa Harris-Perry; Introduction; Prologue; 1 It Is What It Is; 2 Teaching to Teach; 3 The Law Giveth and the Law Taketh Away; 4 It's the Principal; 5 Bricks and Mortarboards; 6 Old School; 7 Chromatics; 8 Coming of Age; 9 Right to Serve; 10 Bolling, Not Brown; 11 Elite versus Elitism; 12 New School; 13 Children Left Behind; 14 From Bed-Stuy to Shaw; 15 The Fall; 16 New New School; 17 Back to the Future; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; Back Flap; Back Cover

Target audience

adult

Classification

Contributor