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[quote=Anonymous]Thought this was an interesting article in the question of selective schools and the history of Dunbar. Learning Why the Caged Bird Sings First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School by Alison Stewart Chicago Review Press, 2013, $26.95, 352 pages The story of DC’s Dunbar High School, told brilliantly by Alison Stewart in First Class, is equal parts uplifting and maddening. The school’s story from its opening in 1870 to the 1960s is a testament to the indomitable spirit of the African-American community of the District at that time. Though relegated to second-class status and stifled at every turn, Dunbar produced a coterie of graduates that the most elite schools in the country would envy. Doctors, lawyers, Ivy League professors, generals, and titans of business all graced and were graced by Dunbar’s faculty and community http://educationnext.org/learning-why-the-caged-bird-sings/[/quote]
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