Dunbar High School - Liber Anni Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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(6AM tp S. MILILTARY INSTRUCTORS Top roy, left to right: Maj. Edward L. Webster, Middle row: Maj. Christian A, Fleetwood, Lieut. ¢ Sottom row: Capt, Edward L, York, 1st I Maj. Milton 'T, Dean ‘ol, Arthur Brooks dieut. Orestus J. Kincaid

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Fea ff Nf Nf NN ee oe ef Nf 0 ff ed fol fe ofl co od ep oe pl ef ee oe fee fed ce ed ed oe ed dep ee ep od w ARXX WON 4 » ASLO By J. C. Wright N 1807, three slave-born and unlettered benefactors—George Bell, Nicholas Franklin and Moses Lverpool—after purchasing their freedom, came to the District of Columbia and erected a one-story frame school house for the edu- cation of colored people. This school was placed in charge of a white teacher named Lowe, and two years later, in 1809, Mrs. Anne Hall, the first colored teacher opened her school. The total Negro population of Washington at this time was 1,498; and as only 494 were free colored people, including about 125 children, only this number could take advantage of the provisions made by the founders of the school, it being a crime in the District of Columbia to teach slaves to read and write. About 1818, under the direction of the “Resolute Beneficial Society,” a school was opened with the avowed purpose of giving instruction to those who were able to pay for it, thereby affording the first free school for colored children in the District of Columbia. Mr. John Adams, the first colored man to teach in the District, also opened his school this year. At the outbreak of the rebellion more than 1,200 colored children attended private schools. Then came the abolition of slavery, and May 21, 1862, Congress passed a law providing that ten per centum of all the taxes collected from the property owned by Negroes in the District of Columbia should be set aside for the purpose of maintaining free schools for the children of the District. This was the beginning of free schools for colored children supported by public money. A number of pay schools and private schools supported by public-spirited people were successfully conducted in Washington for nea rly half a eentury. From such aid, in the spring of 1864, there were 11 such schools, with 21 teachers and 1,000 pupils. During this year 1 teacher was paid out of the public fund $400, and assisted by a volunteer teacher from New Haven, Conn., instructed over 100 pupils. June 25, 1864, the law of 1862 was so amended that the educational fund of the District of Columbia should be divided between the white and colored schools in such proportion as the number of colored children in the District 6 and 17 should bear to the white children of like age. May 1, 1865, the first public school in the District of Columbi was opened, insufficient funds causing delay until this time. public schools increased to 5, with 7 teachers, and 450 pupils. grammar school buildings with modern facilities for te drawing, domestic art, domestic science, physical culture, a for tubercular pupils, a fresh air school, and schools for the atypical, incorrigible, and speech correction; 2 vocational schools, 2 junior high schools, 1 manual training school 1 academic high school including a department of business practice with accredited between the ages of a for colored children In 1867 the number of In 1924 there were 45 aching kindergarten, music, nd manual training; a school