“The Sumner School is one of three post-Civil War black schools in DC and is named in honor of Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts Senator and ardent abolitionist who attempted, unsuccessfully, to ban segregated schools and public facilities in the city. Since its construction in 1871 and 1872, the Sumner School has housed a broad spectrum of the developing black educational opportunities in the city. The school was one of the first public school buildings erected for the education of blacks in Washington. Sumner School is built on the site of a school constructed in 1866 under the auspices of the Freedmen’s Bureau, with lumber salvaged from barracks.”
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