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Booker T. Washington Middle School 130
The Booker T. Washington Junior High School, MS No. 130 replaced the Old Western High School in 1929. Many renowned alumni have passed through its illustrious halls including civil rights attorney and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Congressman and past president- CEO of the NAACP Kweisi Mfume, world-famous bandleader Cab Calloway, the nation’s first female state senator Verda Welcome, Maryland’s first African American Congressman Parren J. Mitchell, and world-renowned jazz singer Ethel Ennis.
Baltimore’s public school system played a pivotal role in the history of the country’s public education. While it is impossible to forget Thurgood Marshall’s famous case of Brown vs. The Board of Education in 1954, it is easy to forget that Baltimore’s Polytechnic Institute was forced to integrate in 1952, two years before the Brown decision, outlawing separate but equal education. Baltimore ordered desegregation soon after the 1954 Brown decision became law.
The original Booker T. Washington Middle School building at Lafayette and McCulloh was erected in 1895 as the Western High School for Girls. Western provided the first opportunity for girls in Baltimore to get an education beyond grammar school. 1301 McCulloh Street, Baltimore, MD 21217
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