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Spingarn High School opened in 1952, as a new and modern segregated high school for African American students. It was the last segregated high school built in Washington, DC, just two years before the U.S. Supreme Court ended school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education.
Learn about the history and architecture of Spingarn, the last segregated high school in Washington, DC, named after a prominent NAACP leader. See images, map, and related tours and sources.
Spingarn High School owes its existence to two factors: a tradition and a trend. The tradition was a segregated school system, the trend was the rapid increase in the school age population among Negroes in the northeast section of the District of Columbia.
Join your DC Dude as he takes a close up look at historic Spingarn High Schools decaying structure, enlightening history, and some of the legends that found there start here.
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Spingarn High School was closed in 2013, and the building has sat empty and unused since then.
- Martin Austermuhle
Built between 1951 and 1952, Spingarn High School was constructed for the education of African American students, meant to relieve the overcrowding of the other segregated high schools and had been planned for that purpose since the late 1930s.…
15. Nov. 2023 · A new era of learning is coming to D.C.’s old Spingarn High School. Mayor Muriel Bowser, other city leaders and proud alums of the historic school gathered to “break ground” on what will be...
