John Philip Sousa Junior High School

Infobox_nrhp | name =John Philip Sousa Junior High School
nrhp_type = nhl


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location= 3650 Ely Place, SE, Washington, D.C.
locmapin = District of Columbia
area = 5.78 acres
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architecture=
designated= August 07, 2001cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=-877703434&ResourceType=Building
title=John Phillip Sousa Junior High School |accessdate=2008-05-12|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = August 07, 2001cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
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refnum=01001045

John Philip Sousa Junior High School, also known as John Philip Sousa Middle School. is located in SE area of Washington, D.C..

In 1950, eleven black students were denied admission to the newly constructed all-white Sousa school. This action was eventually overturned in the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision in "Bolling v. Sharpe", which made segregated public schools illegal in the District of Columbia. This defeat of the principle of "separate but equal" marked an early victory in the modern Civil Rights Movement.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2001.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/01001045.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: John Philip Sousa Junior High School / John Philip Sousa Middle School] |32 KB|date=March 8, 2001 |author=Susan Cianci Salvatore and John H. Sprinkle, Jr.|publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/01001045.pdf "Accompanying four photos, exterior, undated"] |32 KB]

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External links

* [http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/121brown/index.htm "Brown v. Board: Five Communities That Changed America," a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan]