America's First Black High School Terrorized Racists" In 1870, just five years after the Civil War, four Black students walked into a church basement in Washington, D.C., and created something extraordinary: America's first public high school for Black students. For eight decades, Dunbar High School became living proof that systemic racism—not ability—kept Black Americans from achieving excellence. This is the untold story of how one school produced the first Black U.S. Army general, the discove