@article{654850, author = {Stewart, Alison,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/654850}, title = {First class the legacy of Dunbar, America's first Black public high school / [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {Lawrence Hill Press,}, abstract = {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 strings. These enormous challenges did not stop the local community from rallying for the cause of educating its children. Stewart tells the story of the school's rise, fall, and path toward resurgence as it looks to reopen its new, state-of-the-art campus in the fall of 2013.}, recid = {654850}, pages = {1 online resource (xvi, 336 p.)}, address = {Chicago, IL :}, year = {2013}, }