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

Name: First Class The Legacy of Dunbar, America's First Black Public High School
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ISBN: 9781613740095

ISBN-10: 1613740093

ISBN-13: 9781613740095

Edition: 2013

Authors: Alison Stewart, Melissa Harris-Perry

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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 Classexplores 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. Dunbar attracted an extraordinary faculty: its early principal was the first black graduate of Harvard, and…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction


Prologue



It Is What It Is



Teaching to Teach



The Law Giveth and the Law Taketh Away



It's the Principal



Bricks and Mortarboards



Old School



Chromatics



Coming of Age



Right to Serve



Boiling, Not Brown



Elite versus Elitism



New School



Children Left Behind



From Bed-Stuy to Shaw



The Fall



New New School



Back to the Future


Acknowledgments


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index