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Thurber, Bert Henry. The Negro at the Nation’s Capital, 1913-1921. Ph.D. dissertation, Yale
University, 1978.
Washington, D.C.’s African American community serves as a microcosmic model for
issues faced by African Americans throughout the nation during Woodrow Wilson’s
eight-year presidency.
Call Number: Special Collections E 185.93.D6 T58
EDUCATION
Armstrong High School. Annual Exhibit. Washington: Armstrong High School Press,
1930-1931, 1934-1941.
These programs for the annual exhibit of industrial arts offer a look at the subjects
taught and the projects made by students at Armstrong High School, the technical
school for the District’s African Americans during the 1930s.
Call Number: Special Collections LC 2803.W3 A65
Armstrong High School Class of 1931 40th Anniversary Buffet Supper. Washington: The School,
1971.
Armstrong High School, the African American technical school, printed this program
for an alumni buffet. Included in the program are the words to “Lift Ev’ry Voice and
Sing.”
Call Number: Special Collections LD 7501.W3 A65 1971
Brundage, Diane. The Ford Fellows in Educational Journalism Report, 1979: Journalists on the
Issues of Education of the Gifted and Talented, Minimum Competency Testing, Parent Participation in
the Schools, Education and the Tax Revolt, America’s Black Colleges, Achieving Quality Education,
Declining Enrollments and School Closings, School Finance in the South, Indian Education.
Washington: George Washington University, Institute for Educational Leadership, 1979.
Call Number: Special Collections L 2341.F65 1979
Cottrol, Robert. Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution. Lawrence:
University Press of Kansas, 2003.
This work explores the cultural context of the groundbreaking Brown decision, which
outlawed segregated schools, from the Civil War through the Plessy ruling, which held
that blacks had no rights that whites were bound to honor. The authors highlight the
pivotal role of the NAACP, which had long challenged customs that conflicted with
the country's ideals through prior lawsuits, culminating in Brown.
Call Number: Special Collections KF 4155.C68 2003