Black & white children play after integration: 1956

Two years after District of Columbia schools integrated, black and white children play together October 11, 1956 at the formerly all-white West Elementary School at 13th and Farragut streets NW.

The students were identified as Patricia Smith (facing camera) and Debbie (jumping).

The District’s integration took place following the Supreme Court’s Bolling v. Sharpe decision in May 1954 that was brought about by the Consolidated Parents Group.

Consolidated represented parents and students living in Northeast quadrant of the city and led a seven year fight that began with a boycott of deplorable conditions at the all black Browne Junior High on Benning Road in 1947.

White students, aided by some parents, staged a student strike October 4-5, 1954 at a few District of Columbia high schools and junior highs when the schools were desegregated, but overall went fairly smoothly

However after integration, the school system quickly implemented a track system where black students were placed in the lowest tracks that included no college preparation courses and effectively segregated most black students within the schools.

The June 1967 Hobson v. Hansen court decision broke up the track system, but by then white flight to the suburbs had effectively re-segregated District of Columbia public schools.

For a background post on the fight to break up D.C.’s Jim Crow schools and obtain better education for black students, see washingtonareaspark.com/2015/08/20/dcs-fighting-barber-th...

For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHskivJu7g

The photographer is unknown. The image is Washington Daily News photograph courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.

Taken on: October 11, 1956

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