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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
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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 h ....

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