Kynn ([info]kynn) wrote,
@ 2005-12-01 22:11:00
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Black Heritage Tour: #6, Dunbar High School (part 1 of 4)

Intro Post

Gloria Smith's tour did not prepare me at all for the sight that awaited me:

6. On Main Street is located what is now Spring Junior High School. It was the first and only black high school in Tucson and was called at the time Dunbar High School.

Dunbar school

I'm leaving these pictures without commentary for now; part four will explain the history and current status of Dunbar/Spring.

Dunbar school
Dunbar school
Dunbar school
Dunbar school
Dunbar school
Dunbar school
Dunbar school
Dunbar school

Continued in Part Two.


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[info]snikanor
2005-12-02 05:34 am UTC (link)
Washington still has an active Dunbar High School with some history behind it. In fact it's on our African American Heritage Trail.
http://www.culturaltourismdc.org/info-url3948/info-url_show.htm?doc_id=204752&attrib_id=8030

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[info]kynn
2005-12-02 05:37 am UTC (link)
There's also a Dunbar High in Lexington.

In part 4, I'll discuss how integration of the school led to stripping this black cultural landmark of its name, to be replaced by the name of Yet Another White Man.

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[info]snikanor
2005-12-02 05:42 am UTC (link)
Paul Laurance Dunbar seems to have lent his name to quite a few Black schools in the country. Google comes up with a bunch of them.

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[info]kynn
2005-12-02 05:45 am UTC (link)
Yup. And the tragic thing is that I didn't know his name at all before last week.

I'm not sure if that's because I wasn't taught about history, or wasn't taught about poetry, or wasn't taught about black people.

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