Graduates From Country's First Black High School Celebrate 75th Reunion

Graduates From Country's First Black High School Celebrate 75th Reunion

A milestone was marked this weekend. Living graduates from the country's first Black high school in Southwest Washington, D.C., came together for their 75th year reunion. The Dunbar High School class of 1936, now most in their 90s, celebrated the monumental occasion with their families. Dunbar High School was founded in 1870 and was a source of employment for Black teachers when other schools weren't hiring them. Our hat's off to these living testimonies of how a group can overcome no matter the barriers.

Highlighted Clip for Monday, May 16, 2011:

Fifty years ago this month, a group of 13 men and women, seven black and six white, left Washington, D.C., on two buses bound for New Orleans."Young, Brave and Freedom Bound"