FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF WEST TISBURY – FCCOWT SILENT AUCTION 2022
Auction Ends: Dec 10, 2022 05:00 PM EST

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First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America's First Black Public High School

Item Number
207
Estimated Value
35 USD
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Item Description

Autographed Hard Cover by Alison Stewart

Dunbar High School defied the odds and in the process changed America. In the first half of the twentieth century, Washington D.C’s Dunbar High was an academically elite public school, despite being racially segregated by law and existing at the mercy of racist congressmen who held the school’s purse strings. The school’s well-educated teachers developed generations of high-achieving African Americans, groundbreakers that included the first black member of a presidential cabinet, the first black graduate of the US Naval Academy and the legal mastermind behind school desegregation. Today, as with too many troubled urban public schools, the majority of Dunbar students struggle with reading and math. But there is hope with the opening of a brand new $122 million facility that will bear the Dunbar name.

Alison Stewart is an award-winning journalist whose twenty-year career includes anchoring and reporting for NPR, NBC News, ABC News, and CBS News.  She began her reporting casreer covering politics for MTC News. She has a radio show on WNYC weekdays called All of It with Alison Stewart.  Alison leads a book club with NY Public Library and NPR. Alison is a graduate of Brown University.

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