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How America’s 1st Black public high school started in a church basement changed history

How America’s 1st Black public high school started in a church basement changed history

Dunbar High School is the first public high school for African-American students in the U.S. It has produced many influential African Americans like Edward Brooke, the first person to be elected to the U.S. Senate; Benjamin O. David Jr, the first African-American Air Force general, and many more. The school started in the basement of…

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