protests. he had a hard time with it on the one side. on the other side, he understood what this was going to mean for him. the state of high school education is. today in dunbar, it s bittersweet. today, today, dunbar is attempting a resurgence. it had fallen in disrepair t. gorgeous gothic building had been replaced in the 70s, all the problems in the neighborhood came right in. the school suffered academically. it failed no child left behind five years in a row. it had to be reconstituted. a brand-new dunbar high school opened this year. awesome. it s beautiful. they have done some smart things architecturally. there are plaques all over the floor with the names of the illustrious graduates and what they have done so the kids will know it.
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but what about all these graduates? the jazz musician, the artists. and they had no idea about dunbar s history. and when i went over to the school, i saw the history was being lost. even some of the kids there didn t know. and i thought i need to write this down before it gets lost. you had incredible teachers. your parents had these ph.d. professors at this level. was that because these well educated black citizens, academics, they had nowhere else to go. they couldn t teach at the college level. they couldn t teach at the college level. some were very bitter about it. some of the very colleges they graduated from wouldn t have them on staff. some of them when they went to the colleges couldn t even live on the campuses. they had to go live in private apartments. they did corner some of the market on some of the best talent. and i think you ll see, you