Washington, D.C
How Black parents in D.C. got segregation struck down 70 years ago
On the first day of school in September 1950, Gardner L. Bishop led a group of 11 Black students into Sousa Junior High School in Southeast Washington. The school, which had just been built exclusively for White students in D.C., was large, modern and nearly empty. It had at least 40 classrooms, a huge gymnasium and a grand auditorium.