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The school was established outside of Baltimore, Maryland in 1873 and funded by the estate of John McDonogh (1779 - 1850), a former Baltimore resident and enslaver. [6] [7] The McDonogh campus encompasses 800 acres of land and houses more than 15 educational buildings including a new home for the middle school, The Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Building.
John McDonogh (December 29, 1779 – October 26, 1850) was an American entrepreneur whose adult life was spent in south Louisiana and later in Baltimore. He made a fortune in real estate and shipping, and as a slave owner, he supported the American Colonization Society, which organized transportation for freed people of color to Liberia.
John McDonogh, whose sports teams were nicknamed the "Trojans", had a vast sport history, winning district championships in football, baseball, and basketball a combined 83 times in its 109-year history. John McDonogh became the center of national news when on April 14, 2003, tenth-grade student Jonathan "Caveman" Williams was shot and killed ...
McDonogh 35 Senior High School became recognized as a four-year high school. McDonogh 35 remained the only public four-year high school for African Americans until the L. B. Landry school transitioned from an elementary into a high school in 1942. Booker T. Washington also opened its doors in 1942 for African Americans.
McDonogh School, Owings Mills, Maryland Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title McDonogh High School .
McDonogh 19 Elementary School is an American elementary school located at 5909 St. Claude Avenue in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana. Along with William Frantz Elementary School , it was involved in the New Orleans school desegregation crisis during the early 1960s.
The McDonogh Three is a nickname for three African American students who desegregated McDonogh 19 Elementary School, in New Orleans on November 14, 1960. [1] Even though school segregation had been illegal since the Brown v.
During Jerome's administration as Mayor of Baltimore, the McDonogh bequest was made to the city from the estate of John McDonogh – a bequest which would later result in the foundation of the McDonogh School.