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Dunbar High School (Little Rock, Arkansas)

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was built in 1927 with $ 1.5 million in funds provided entirely by the school board. Dunbar was provided with textbooks after they were discarded from Central. Dunbar had 1/3 the number of classrooms and floor space, smaller faculty salaries, and no sports facilities.
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provided the seed money to build a school for African-American children in Little Rock at the corner of Wright Avenue and Ringo Street, one of 338 Rosenwald Schools built in Arkansas. Prior to its opening, there were 5 elementary schools and one high school
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Dunbar closed as a high school and junior college in 1955 when the schools were integrated, and was demoted to junior high status. In 1980 the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
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African-American high school in Little Rock, Arkansas
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west of the Mississippi River (Oakland, CA) in 1949.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar High School and Junior College
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Little Rock, Arkansas
Coordinates
34°43′56″N 92°17′11″W / 34.7323°N 92.2863°W / 34.7323; -92.2863
Little Rock, Arkansas
Rosenwald Fund
M. W. Gibbs
Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
Paul Dunbar
separate but equal
Little Rock Central High School
Milton Crenchaw
Tuskegee Airmen
L. Clifford Davis
Sammy Drake
Solly Drake
Gertrude Jeannette
Willie Smith
Robert Williams



"Paul Laurence Dunbar High School"
"Little Rock Look Back: Final Graduation of Dunbar High School"
"Paul Laurence Dunbar High School"
"Desegregating the University of Arkansas School of Law: L. Clifford Davis and the Six Pioneers"
Categories
Historically black schools
Public high schools in Arkansas

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