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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 s...

Know, barack and michelle obama might have been teachers. people of that caliber probably would have been teachers. that is interesting of black middle class across the country. teachers are held in high regard, with great esteem. >> you talk about the talent that was brought to dunbar. students like your dad moved from harlem down to washington just to attend that school. >> yeah. my dad was a very bright, smart-mouthed kid. my grandmother used to say no one said joe stewart and high school in the same sentence. she packed him up to live with the the parents to go to dunbar. he really had a h...

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...