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Farewell, Woodrow Wilson—It s Jackson-Reed High School Now

Opinions | The complicated racial history of the high school D C is renaming

Opinions | The complicated racial history of the high school D.C. is renaming Stefan Fatsis © Salwan Georges/The Washington Post Woodrow Wilson High School in Northwest Washington is one of the schools whose name could be reconsidered. In the fall of 1954, four months after the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in D.C. public schools in a companion case to Brown v. Board of Education, six of the city’s seven all-White high schools accepted Black students for the first time, from a handful to hundreds. The seventh was Woodrow Wilson High School. Wilson had been named by Look magazine as one of the 10 best high schools in America a few years earlier. Its student body boasted the children of diplomats and congressmen; graduates included future senator John Warner, future anchorman Roger Mudd, future billionaire Warren Buffett and future AIDS activist Larry Kramer. But as the rest of Washington began grappling with desegregation hundreds of White stud

Wilson Newspaper Staff Endorse Renaming School for Edna B Jackson

Get our free newsletter Success! You re on the list. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn t process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. Processing… For every issue of The Beacon, Woodrow Wilson High School’s student-run newspaper, the staff pens an editorial. Usually, students begin by breaking into small groups to discuss current issues impacting them, then everyone comes back as one group to share and choose a topic together. But when it came to The Beacon’s upcoming December issue, there was no debate the staff unanimously opted to weigh in on the renaming of their high school. “It’s hands down the most important thing happening in our school right now,” says

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