Lexington Dunbar High

Description

Dunbar High School was a predominantly African-American school in Lexington. It was closed as a result of the desegregation process of Kentucky's school system. The interviewees in this collection talk about their personal connections to the school. Some of them worked at Dunbar, others are former students. They discuss their feelings on the closing, and how they think desegregation effected Lexington schools.

Title

Lexington Dunbar High

Project Interviews

Former Teacher at Dunbar

Mr. Jerry Tevis, a 1967 graduate of Dunbar High School discusses his feelings about the closing of Dunbar High School. He provides information on his family background, education, and occupational history. Mr. Tevis describes Dunbar's meaning to the African American community in Lexington, KY as being something that they could relate to and take…

Mr. Alvin Seals, a teacher at Kentucky State University and a member of the Fayette County School Board discusses the closing of Dunbar High School. He describes the importance of the school in the black community as being a place where African Americans could come together and their reaction when the school closed. As the desegregation process…

Reverend Thomas Peoples, Jr., pastor of Covenant Baptist Church and a Lexington, KY native, graduated from Dunbar High School in 1958. As the former president of the Lexington NAACP and a very active member in Lexington's black communnity, Mr. People's was an active participant in the movement to save Dunbar High School. He describes Dunbar's…

Former Associate Principal and Coach in Dunbar School

Ms. Bernice Thomas, a lifelong resident of Lexington, KY received her early education at Booker T. Washington Elementary School and graduated from Paul Lawrence Dunbar High School in 1962. She recalls pleasant memories about her time spent at Dunbar High School and the African American community's reaction when Lexington, KY closed the majority of…
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