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Investigation of Public School Conditions. Report of the Subcommittee to Investigate Public School
Standards and Conditions, and Juvenile Delinquency in the District of Columbia. 84th Congress,
2nd Session. Washington: G.P.O., 1957.
This report, based on the hearings above, supplements and summarizes the views
noted above, including a recommendation to re-segregate the school system.
Call Number: Special Collections LA 255.A53
Keeping Fit for the American Way of Life: A Program of Physical Activities: May 16, 1946, Griffith
Stadium, 1:30 p.m. Washington: s.n., 1946.
African American students took part in a physical education program at Griffith
Stadium, the baseball stadium of the Washington Senators.
Call Number: Special Collections GV 224.W3 K43 1946
Khanna, Kumud. Effects of Nutrition Education Methods on Nutrition Knowledge, Behavior and
Attitudes of Black Elderly Cardiovascular Subjects in Washington, D.C. Ph.D. dissertation,
Howard University, 1990.
Kumud Khanna probes the connection between different methods of nutrition
education and the retention and use of that knowledge by African American elders.
Call Number: Special Collections RA 564.8.K45 1990
Knox, Ellis O. Democracy and the District of Columbia Public Schools. Washington, D.C.: Judd
and Deweiler, 1957.
This 1957 report argues that segregation was separate and unequal, providing African
American students with poor education, which was reflected on the national tests and
a sociological background that condoned misdemeanors and crimes.
Call Number: Special Collections LA 255.K6
Levey, Jane Freundel. Segregation in Education: a Basis for Jim Crow in Washington, D.C., 1804-
1880. Master’s thesis, George Washington University, 1991.
Intrigued how Washington, a city without Jim Crow laws, could have segregated
schools, Jane Levey explores the roots of educational segregation in Washington, D.C.
Call Number: Special Collections AS 36.G3 1991
Moone, James C. The Problem of Designing an African-American Studies Program in U.S. Public
Schools: The Challenge for New Directions: A Case Study of the Washington, D.C. Public Schools,
1969-1974. Ph.D. dissertation, Howard University, 1976.
This study looks at public education for African Americans and the development of
Black Studies in the curriculum of the D.C. School District.
Call Number: Special Collections E 184.7.M66 1976a