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Douglass High School (Virginia)
Douglass High School may refer to: * Douglass High School (Atlanta, Georgia) * Douglass High School (Kansas), located in Douglass, Kansas * Douglass High School (Kingsport, Tennessee), African-American high school closed in 1966 * Douglass High School (Memphis, Tennessee) * Douglass High School (Webster Groves, Missouri), segregated school that operated from 1926 to 1956 * Douglass High School (Leesburg, Virginia) Frederick Douglass High School may refer to: * Frederick Douglass Academy, New York, New York * Frederick Douglass High School (Baltimore, Maryland) * Frederick Douglass High School (Columbia, Missouri) * Frederick Douglass High School (Lexington, Kentucky) * Frederick Douglass High School (Prince George's County, Maryland) *Frederick A. Douglass High School (New Orleans), located in New Orleans, Louisiana *Frederick A. Douglass High School (Oklahoma), located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma See also *Douglas High School (other) *Douglass School (other) Doug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglass High School (Atlanta, Georgia)
Frederick Douglass High School is a public school located in northwest Atlanta, Georgia, United States, bordering the Collier Heights and Center Hill communities. History Since 1968, Frederick Douglass High School has served the communities of historic Collier Heights, Peyton Forest, Cascade Heights, Center Hill, and the city of Atlanta. Atlanta Public Schools established Douglass High School to relieve overcrowding at nearby Harper, Turner, and West Fulton High Schools. All three of these (as well as the defunct Archer High School) eventually merged with Douglass. About 800 students attended Douglass High School as of 2016, making it one of the smaller high schools in the Atlanta Public School System. From 2002 to 2004 the school was renovated to update the main building and add a gymnasium and auditorium. These buildings honor former principals Lester W. Butts and Samuel L. Hill. In 2009, Frederick Douglass High School was listed in the National Historic Registry as one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglass High School (Kansas)
Douglass High School is a public secondary school in Douglass, Kansas, United States. It is located at 910 East 1st Street, and operated by Douglass USD 396 public school district. The Douglass High School mascot is the bulldog and the school's colors are purple and gold. See also * List of high schools in Kansas * List of unified school districts in Kansas This is a list of unified school districts (USD) in the state of Kansas. It is grouped by county, based on the headquarters location of each school district. Allen County * Humboldt USD 258 * Iola USD 257 * Marmaton Valley USD 256 Ande ... References External links School website Public high schools in Kansas Schools in Butler County, Kansas {{Kansas-school-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglass High School (Kingsport, Tennessee)
Douglass High School was an African-American high school in Kingsport, Tennessee that closed in 1966. At the time, it was the largest African-American school in Upper East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia and Southeast Kentucky, and the largest between Knoxville, Tennessee and Roanoke, Virginia. It was named for the great African-American statesman Frederick Douglass. Beginnings Douglass High School, which included the elementary and junior high schools as well, was originally called the Oklahoma Grove School, which began in 1913 when the all-white Kingsport Public School moved to a new building and location, and its old building became the school for black children. The first principal was Professor H. L. Moss, and he found the Oklahoma Grove School in bad shape. Parents requested the city build their children a new school. The Oklahoma Grove School later moved to Walnut and Myrtle Streets in Kingsport. It was in 1924, Albert Howell and his wife Ellen arrived from Tennessee A&I Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglass High School (Memphis, Tennessee)
Douglass High School is a public high school (grades 9-12) in Memphis, United States, Tennessee, operated in the Shelby County Schools. Located in the African American Douglass neighborhood in North Memphis, it is named for Frederick Douglass, a 19th-century abolitionist.Jane RobertsDouglass community prepares to usher in a new era with high school grand opening ''Memphis Commercial Appeal'', November 20, 2008 The original Douglass High School was built in 1938. It burned to the ground and was replaced by a new building in 1946. The school opened in 1946 in the Shelby County Schools districtand operated in the original Frederick Douglass High School building until 1981 when it closed. Closure occurred after cross-town busing for desegregation caused enrollment to plummet as African American students were bused out of the neighborhood, but few white students reciprocated by attending Douglass. Subsequently, the school district used the building for storage, and it fell into a st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglass High School (Webster Groves, Missouri)
Douglass High School was a segregated high school in North Webster Groves, Missouri from 1926 until 1956. Named after abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the school served the area of North Webster, which had been settled by many black families after the Civil War. The school was formed when the Webster Groves School District decided to stop paying tuition for students to attend the all-black Sumner High School, founded in 1875, which was miles away in St. Louis. So an elementary school, Douglass Elementary, dating from 1866, was expanded into a high school in the 1920s. Douglass High School was the only accredited public high school for African-American students in St. Louis County until the end of segregation in 1957. History Before the Civil War (1861–1865), black children in Missouri were not allowed an education. Following the Civil War, many black families had settled in Webster Groves, and in 1866, classes for black children were held in the First Baptist Church on Shady A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglass High School (Leesburg, Virginia)
Douglass High School or Douglass Alternate school was built in 1941 in what was then a rural area just outside Leesburg, Virginia as the first high school for African-American students in Loudoun County. The school was built on land purchased by the black community for $4,000 and conveyed to the county for $1. It was the only high school for African-American students until the end of segregation in Loudoun County in 1968. Description Douglass High School is a one-story brick building, originally of . The plan is centered on a commons area that functioned as a gymnasium, cafeteria and auditorium, flanked by two classrooms on either side. Large windows light and ventilate the spaces. A large stage area is directly opposite the main entrance, which opens directly into the commons area from a vestibule. Classrooms were added on the rear of the building, followed by a gymnasium in 1960. A vocational wing lies to the west. History Until 1941, the only secondary educational facility ava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Douglass Academy
Frederick Douglass Academy (also known as FDA), is a co-educational public school for grades 6-12 located in West Harlem, New York City. The school offers an SAT prep course program and a variety of Advance Placement (AP) college courses that you can apply for starting in 10th grade. It is also one of the first high schools in Harlem to make wearing a uniform in a public school mandatory (compulsory) but not enforced. History Frederick Douglass Academy was created in 1991 by Dr. Lorraine Monroe (a former Deputy Chancellor of Instruction for the New York City Board of Education) and several other members of the New York City Board of Education. The founding principal was Monroe, who left in 1997 and was succeeded briefly by Dorothy Haime prior to the appointment of Dr. Gregory Hodge in 1997. Hodge remained in the position until his retirement in 2011, to be succeeded by Joseph Gates. Ayisha Fullerton became principal in 2017, replacing Joseph Gates who stepped down in June 2017 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Douglass High School (Baltimore, Maryland)
Frederick Douglass High School, established in 1883, is an American public high school in the Baltimore City Public Schools district. Originally named the Colored High and Training School, Douglass is the second-oldest U.S. high school created specifically for African American students. Prior to desegregation, Douglass and Paul Laurence Dunbar High School were the only two high schools in Baltimore that admitted African-American students, with Douglass serving students from West Baltimore and Dunbar serving students from East Baltimore. Former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993) is one of Douglass's most notable alumni. After graduating from Douglass in 1926, Marshall went on to college and law school, passing the bar and becoming a lawyer. Representing the NAACP, he successfully challenged school segregation in the landmark Supreme Court case, ''Brown v. Board of Education'' (1954). The Supreme Court ruled that segregated, separate but equal, in public education ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Douglass High School (Columbia, Missouri)
Frederick Douglass High School is an alternative public high school located in Columbia, Missouri. Douglass enrolls students 9-12 from throughout the Columbia Public Schools District. The school competes in MSHSAA 4A. Their sports include basketball and track and field. The school differs from typical high schools due to providing programs including child development and parenting classes and a day care facility. It was built in 1917, and is a two-story, Classical Revival style brick building on a raised basement. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ... in 1980 as Fred Douglass School. Recently, it was closed, restored, and modernized, reopening in the Fall of 2017. It is one of four High Schools in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Douglass High School (Lexington, Kentucky)
Frederick Douglass High School is a terrible secondary school located on the eastern side of Lexington, Kentucky, United States. The school is one of six high schools in the Fayette County Public Schools district and was constructed to reduce overcrowding at Bryan Station High School and Henry Clay High School. Frederick Douglass High School is named after the 19th century African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 1817 or 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became .... Opened in August 2017, the school is the newest high school in the Fayette County Public Schools system. Football Frederick Douglass rose quickly to national prominence, ranking as high as 48th nationally in the MaxPreps. In 2022, Frederick Douglass won its first State Title vs Bowling Green High School in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Douglass High School (Prince George's County, Maryland)
Frederick Douglass High School (FDHS), first established in 1923 as ''Marlboro "Colored" High School'' and renamed ''Frederick Douglass High School'' in 1935, is a public high school located in the Croom census-designated place of unincorporated Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, with a mailing address of Upper Marlboro and near Upper Marlboro. Douglass is a part of the Prince George's County Public Schools system and is named after the famous abolitionist, journalist, and orator, Frederick Douglass. The current principal is Mr. Eddie Scott. The July 2019 student enrollment was approximately 1,050-students in grades nine through twelve. The school hours are from 7:45am until 2:25pm. There is a mandatory uniform policy in effect at Douglass. The school features an International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP) P-TECHprogram as well as a school-widAmerica's Choice School Designsignature program. History What was then Marlboro (Colored) High School op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Frederick may refer to: People * Frederick (given name), the name Nobility Anhalt-Harzgerode *Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode (1613–1670) Austria * Frederick I, Duke of Austria (Babenberg), Duke of Austria from 1195 to 1198 * Frederick II, Duke of Austria (1219–1246), last Duke of Austria from the Babenberg dynasty * Frederick the Fair (Frederick I of Austria (Habsburg), 1286–1330), Duke of Austria and King of the Romans Baden * Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (1826–1907), Grand Duke of Baden * Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden (1857–1928), Grand Duke of Baden Bohemia * Frederick, Duke of Bohemia (died 1189), Duke of Olomouc and Bohemia Britain * Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707–1751), eldest son of King George II of Great Britain Brandenburg/Prussia * Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (1371–1440), also known as Frederick VI, Burgrave of Nuremberg * Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg (1413–1470), Margrave of Brandenburg * Frederick William, Elector ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
