Luther Jackson High School

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Luther Porter Jackson Middle School
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Luther Jackson High School
Fairfax County, Virginia
Coordinates 38°52′06″N77°13′43″W / 38.8683°N 77.2287°W / 38.8683; -77.2287
Information
Other nameLuther Jackson Middle School (1965– )
TypePublic, segregated
Opened1954
Closed1965
School district Fairfax County Public Schools
PrincipalRaven Jones [1]
Last updated: March 9, 2023

Luther Porter Jackson High School was a secondary school for Black students in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, located at the Annandale-Dunn Loring-Merrifield corridor. A part of Fairfax County Public Schools, it was the county's first grade 7-12 school for Black children. [2]

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History

Before the school was established, FCPS sent Black students to District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) schools and the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth, [3] later the Manassas Regional High School, [4] a vocational school. [5] : 9  Schools in Washington, D.C., which took Black Fairfax County students included Armstrong Manual Training School, Cardozo High School, Dunbar High School, and Phelps Vocational Center. [4]

Jackson, named after teacher Luther Porter Jackson, opened in 1954. [3] At the time the school was in operation, about 41% of its students planned to attend colleges and universities. [5] : 173 

Luther Jackson was a scholar who researched the Readjusters, a Black majority political party that led Virginia under William Mahone from 1879 to 1883. [6]

The high school served as the counterpart to the then-Whites only Falls Church High School before closing in 1965 once the Fairfax School District had racially integrated. Luther Jackson Intermediate School, now known as Luther Jackson Middle School, opened on the former high school campus in September of that year. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Zuluaga, Fabio. “Welcome, Principal Jones!” Welcome, Principal Jones! | Jackson Middle School, 16 Sept. 2022, https://jacksonms.fcps.edu/features/welcome-principal-jones.
  2. ↑ Gjelten, Tom. A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story. Simon and Schuster, September 15, 2015. ISBN   1476743851, 9781476743851. p. 56.
  3. 1 2 3 "History Archived 2016-08-03 at the Wayback Machine ." Luther Jackson Middle School. Retrieved on June 4, 2016.
  4. 1 2 Lee, Mathelle (15 April 1993). "Abstract". A history of Luther P. Jackson high school: a report of a case study on the development of a black high school (PDF) (EdD). hdl: 10919/40030 . Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-02-19.
  5. 1 2 Duke, Daniel Linden (2005). Education empire : the evolution of an excellent suburban school system. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. ISBN   9780791482988.
  6. ↑ Dalley, Jane (August 21, 2017). "The Confederate General Who Was Erased". Huffington Post . Archived from the original on 8 November 2022.

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