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building became Robert Gould Shaw Junior High School, which had previously opened for black students on M Street in 1921. The new Shaw was also a blacks-only school until segregation ended, but it remained primarily African-American. The school became overcrowded and poorly maintained. As it started to deteriorate the building was referred to as “Shameful Shaw.” It was illustrative of the city's neglect of African Americans. In 1977, Shaw was moved to a new school at 9th Street and Rhode Island Avenue NW. In 2008, Shaw again moved, this time to the Garnet-Patterson school building at 10th and V Streets NW, where it became known as Shaw Middle School at Garnet-Patterson. In 2013, Shaw at Garnet-Patterson closed due to low enrollment following the murder of its principal, Brian Betts. Shaw had a prolific music program with its band marching in the Macy's parade, the Rose Bowl and the Gimbel's parade in Philadelphia, PA. The band was directed by Mr. Lloyd Hoover. The old Shaw Junior High building now houses apartments.
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for African Americans. They were part of an educational trend that began in the late 19th century of developing schools that taught industrial education along with the more traditional academic curriculum that prepared students for college. When McKinley moved to a larger campus in 1928 the
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The building was designed by architect Henry Ives Cobb. It is part of the city's effort to hire private architects to improve the designs of public schools. The exterior is composed of buff-colored brick and limestone trim. It features an arcade of
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Until the 1960s, what is now Shaw was called Midcity. In 1966, planners used the enrollment boundary of Shaw Junior High School to define the
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
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from which the concept of a Shaw neighborhood was derived. Includes the
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List of jails and prisons on the National Register of Historic Places
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Historically segregated African-American schools in Washington, D.C.
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Romanesque Revival architecture in Washington, D.C.
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William McKinley Manual Training School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Shaw Junior High School is located in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
38°54′44.11″N 77°1′18.93″W / 38.9122528°N 77.0219250°W / 38.9122528; -77.0219250
Romanesque Revival
MPS
08001206
Shaw
Washington, D.C.
District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites
National Register of Historic Places
Robert Gould Shaw
54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
American Civil War
Armstrong Manual Training School

U Street
Logan Circle
Shaw
U Street
Logan Circle
Truxton Circle
Romanesque
"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service
"Shaw's Roots: From 'Heart Of Chocolate City' To 'Little United Nations'"
"D.C. Neighborhood Names Rekindle History"

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