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The West Chester Area School District announced plans to build a new public high school in 2002. In May, the district school board voted 6–3 to name the school after Bayard Rustin, the West Chester-born civil rights leader and principal organizer of the historic 1963 March on Washington, during which Martin Luther King Jr delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech.
The building, located at West 18th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, formerly housed Bayard Rustin High School for the Humanities (M440), a comprehensive school which graduated its last class in the 2011-2012 school year.
Rustin is one of two men who have both participated in the Penn Relays and had a school, West Chester Rustin High School, named in his honor that participates in the relays. [86] In 1968, two months after the King assassination, Montclair State University gave Rustin an honorary Doctor of Letters degree. [87]
Bayard Rustin High School for the Humanities, New York City Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about schools, colleges, or other educational institutions which are associated with the same title.
The WCASD consists of eleven elementary schools, three middle schools, and three high schools, as of the fall 2022 school year. Elementary schools include grades 1-5, middle schools grades 6-8, and high schools grades 9-12. Its headquarters are in West Whiteland Township, near the Exton census-designated place. [3] [4]
But Rustin’s connection to queer culture may have stretched back even further, indeed to the very beginning of his life. Born Bayard Taylor Rustin in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1912, he was ...
Deer Lakes High School, Russellton Eden Christian Academy, Pittsburgh, Sewickley, and Wexford Fox Chapel Area High School, Fox Chapel; Hampton High School, Allison Park; North Allegheny Intermediate High School, McCandless
Humanities Preparatory Academy (also known as Humanities Prep) is an American public high school, located in the Chelsea district of Manhattan, New York City. The school sends over 99% of its students to four-year universities and private schools. [citation needed] Founded as a program in Bayard Rustin High School, it became a school in 1997.