John Philip Sousa Junior High SchoolJohn Philip Sousa Junior High School

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" was a significant landmark in the modern Civil Rights Movement. Photo: Dmadeo, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John-phillip-sousa-high-school.JPG)