Participating Schools
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"I want to thank all of our Abolition Day schools and
participating students for their dedication to the cause of
justice and freedom. With so many people around the world
bound in slavery, just as my ancestors were, there has never
been a greater need for modern abolitionists."
Nettie Washington Douglass
Chairwoman, Frederick
Douglass Family Foundation
Great, Great
Granddaughter, Frederick Douglass
Great,
Granddaughter, Booker T. Washington
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Los Angeles, California
Brentwood School
100 South Barrington Place
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Brentwood School is a vibrant and diverse community
whose purpose is to promote personal and intellectual
growth. We provide challenging, engaging programs in a
nurturing learning environment, devoting care and attention
to every student. Embracing high standards of character,
commitment, and achievement, Brentwood School encourages
students to think critically and creatively and to act
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Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas Area School
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Chicago, Illinois
North Lawndale College Preparatory Charter High School
1615 South Christina Ave
Chicago, IL 60623
The mission of North Lawndale College Preparatory Charter
High School (NLCP) is to prepare young people from
under-resourced communities for graduation from high school
with the academic skills and personal resilience necessary for
successful completion of college.
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Atlanta, Georgia
Booker T. Washington High School
45 White House Drive, S.W.
Atlanta, GA 30314
To prepare students for post-secondary success.
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New Bedford, Massachusetts
Roosevelt Middle School
119 Frederick Street
New Bedford, MA 02744
The mission of our school is to ensure that ALL students
learn and are academically challenged, we will provide highly
qualified teachers for our students and all students will
achieve at proficient or advanced academic levels on the
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) by the
year 2014, and/or meet the academic criteria that may be
stated in any/all state and federal laws. We, at Roosevelt
Middle School, “Where ALL Kids Succeed!” envision that our
mission, in partnership with our school-community, is to
provide all students with a middle school program, which meets
the unique needs of preadolescents. Our program will emphasize
academics and cognitive development, while recognizing and
addressing the social-emotional and physiological
characteristics of our developing preadolescent students.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Normandin Middle School
81 Fellton St.
New Bedford, MA 02745
The Normandin Middle School Family works with
families to provide students with a
productive and successful middle school experience.
This is a special time in a young person's life when
great changes are occurring physically, cognitively,
emotionally and socially. Normandin Middle School is
committed to being a developmentally responsive
learning community that maintains high expectations.
We celebrate our diversity and work with our
families and the community in order to provide the
best educational experience for all our students and
help children "chart the course to success"!
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Baltimore, Maryland
New Era Academy
2700 Seamon Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21225
NEW ERA Academy will build in young men and women the
cultural awareness, self confidence, experience, academic
record, skills, and access that they will need to prosper in
high school and beyond.
Through discipline, structure, high expectations, and
exploration, scholars will take personal responsibility for
their education and realize their full potential.
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Washington, D.C.
Edmund Burke School
4101 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20008
Burke is an independent, college-preparatory school that
consciously brings together students who are different from
each other in many ways. In an environment of civil discourse,
Burke affords students respect for who they are, actively
engages them in their own education, has high expectations for
them, and gives them power and responsibility in order to
advance their growth as skilled and independent thinkers who
step forward to make positive contributions to the worlds in
which they live. Burke fosters informed, open discussion,
personal integrity, and action impelled by conscience,
inspired by Edmund Burke’s words: “The only thing necessary
for the triumph of evil is for enough good men to do nothing.”
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New York City, New York
United Nations International School
224-50 FDR Drive
New York, NY 10010-4046
The United Nations International School provides an
international education that emphasizes academic excellence
within a caring community for kindergarten through twelfth
grade students from families of the United Nations, as well as
from other families seeking a similar education for their
children. The School promotes the appreciation of the
diversity of persons and cultures, provides an optimal
environment for learning and teaching, and offers a global
curriculum that inspires in its students the spirit and ideals
of the United Nations Charter.
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New York City, New York
Frederick Douglass Academy IV
1014 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11221
The mission of the administrators and faculty at Frederick
Douglass Academy IV is to prepare each student to enter
prestigious colleges and universities with an excellent
foundation and a sense of self-confidence so solid that the
dream of a college degree and a professional career becomes a
reality.
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Rochester, New York
Wilson Foundation Academy
200 Genesse St.
Rochester, NY 14611
Our Mission is Excellence!
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