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Fighting
for Knowledge: The Quest for Education |
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following images are courtesy of the Library
of Congress in Washington, D.C. You can find a wealth of information
about these images, as well as many others, by searching its Web site.
(Please click each image for a larger view.) |
 Tuskegee
University, founded in 1881 as a school to train African American
teachers, rose to national prominence under the leadership
of its first teacher, Dr. Booker T. Washington. Shown here
is a 1902 co-educational history class. Source: Library of
Congress |
 Many
schools successfully integrated early in the Civil Rights
struggle. Barnard Elementary School in Washington, D.C., as
shown in this 1955 photograph, has been an integrated facility
for more than a half century. Source: Library of Congress |
 Howard
University biology class. Chartered by Congress in 1867, Howard
University, in Washington, D.C., always has provided outstanding
higher education to men and women of all races, with an emphasis
on serving the Black community. Shown here is a 1900 laboratory
class in bacteriology. Source: Library of Congress |
 From
Howard University’s graduating class of 1900, shown here,
the school has expanded to its current enrollment of more than
7,000 undergraduates and almost 4,000 graduate students enrolled
in medicine, law, dentistry, divinity and other professions.
Source: Library of Congress |
 Washington,
D.C., firehouse workers. Education was a priority when much
of Washington D.C., was still segregated. Shown here, in a
photograph by famed Black photographer Gordon Parks, are new
firefighters at Firehouse Station Number Four in 1943 getting
a lesson in water pressure. Source: Library of Congress |
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