Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (Fort Worth, Texas)
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Paul Laurence Dunbar High School is a comprehensive high school in the Stop Six neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas
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Named for the dialectical poet Paul Laurence Dunbar
, the school strives to highly educate the majority African-American community it serves.
in 1938 and began adding high school classes in 1953. graduating its first class in 1957. Its last all-Black graduation class was the class of 1983.
Dunbar High School has had an engineering magnet program since 1980.
Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...
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Named for the dialectical poet Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar was a seminal African American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dunbar gained national recognition for his 1896 "Ode to Ethiopia", one poem in the collection Lyrics of Lowly Life....
, the school strives to highly educate the majority African-American community it serves.
History
Formal education in the Stop Six area was established in 1907 with the Rustville School, which joined the Fort Worth Public School System in 1924. The school changed its name to Paul Laurence DunbarPaul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar was a seminal African American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dunbar gained national recognition for his 1896 "Ode to Ethiopia", one poem in the collection Lyrics of Lowly Life....
in 1938 and began adding high school classes in 1953. graduating its first class in 1957. Its last all-Black graduation class was the class of 1983.
Campus
The current Dunbar High School building was completed in 1967.Dunbar High School has had an engineering magnet program since 1980.
Wildcat marching band
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