Art
In 1955, Washington, D.C. schools began admitting Black and white students together—a slow, uncertain step toward integration. For children and families, desegregation meant new classrooms, new friendships, and new tensions in a divided city.
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You walk into Barnard School on a January morning. The hallway smells like floor wax and chalk dust. Children in pressed clothes stand together at their desks—some faces familiar from the neighborhood, others new. A teacher watches carefully as students settle into rows. Nobody quite knows what comes next.
Reflect
What was your own school like? Who did you learn alongside, and who wasn't there?