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TITLE:
First class : the legacy of Dunbar, America's first Black public high school / Alison Stewart ; foreword by Melissa Harris-Perry.
Pub Date:
[2013]
ISBN:
9781613740095
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xvi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
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 -- Bolling, not Brown -- Elite versus elitism -- New school -- Children left behind -- From Bed-Stuy to Shaw -- The fall -- New new school -- Back to the future.
Abstract:
"An analysis of the first US high school for African Americans, the publication of which will coincide with the opening of the school's new facility"-- Provided by publisher.