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Douglass High School
Loudoun's first black high school

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Douglass High School is currently a special education school and community center that continues to serve the community. Not open for tours.
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Location
407 East Market Street
Leesburg, VA

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(703) 771-6550

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Douglass High School
Douglass High School
The school symbolizes the quiet tenacity and sense of purpose evinced by Loudoun County's black citizens in their determination to secure a high standard of secondary education for their children.

The school stands on land purchased by African Americans and presented to the county school board in 1940. Though the building was paid for with public funds, the black community raised money for furnishings, laboratory equipment, and band instruments. Named for Frederick Douglass, a former slave and prominent abolitionist, the school operated as the county's first and only black high school from its opening in 1941 until the termination of segregated education in 1968.

The building today houses an alternative school, serving students with special needs.


Designations
National Register of Historic Places

 
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