Mary Gibson Hundley letter, 1973.

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Mary Gibson Hundley letter, 1973.

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Photocopy of letter (1973) from Mary Gibson Hundley, author of The Dunbar Story, 1870-1955, objecting to plans to demolish historic Dunbar High School, which was located at First and N Streets, NW . The letter was sent to the editors of the Washington Star-News, Washington Post, and the Washington Afro-American.

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Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

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Hundley, Mary Gibson, 1897-1986

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Mary Gibson Hundley, educator and civil rights activist, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 18, 1897, the daughter of Malachi Gibson, a lawyer, and Mary Matilda Syphax, a teacher. On her mother's side, MGH was a descendant of Martha Custis Washington and granddaughter of William Syphax, first superintendent of Colored Public Schools of Washington and Georgetown. She graduated from Dunbar High School (then known as the "M" Street school) in Washington D.C. in 1914. At Radcl...

Dunbar High School (Washington, D.C.)

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