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The Loss of Diversity
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Authored By: Naomi Dillon, Date Published: 4/16/2007, Product#: 36995
In 1923, the Baltimore City School District’s board of commissioners renamed a high school after Frederick Douglass, the great orator and abolitionist. Until then, the building was called the Colored High School and provided most of the city’s African-American students with a secondary education. Today, the school boasts a long list of distinguished alumni, including Thurgood Marshall, the first black U.S. Supreme Court justice. But 82 years after it was renamed and 51 years after Marshall’s legal victory in Brown v. Board of Education, the enrollment of Frederick Douglass High School still reflects the school’s original name. |
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