Jean Baptiste Point DuSable High School is a public 4–year high school campus in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United...
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Walter Dyett (section DuSable High School)
high schools; Wendell Phillips High School and DuSable High School. Dyett served as musical director at DuSable High School from its opening in 1935 until...
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Point du Sable (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable;...
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Ellisville, Mississippi, his grandmother, and his minister. Foxx attended DuSable High School in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood with future Chicago mayor Harold...
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directors. A long-time educator, she spent most of her career at DuSable High School. Taylor-Burroughs was a prolific writer, with her efforts directed...
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blacks. Johnson later transferred to DuSable High School for his junior and senior years. His classmates at DuSable included Nat King Cole and Redd Foxx...
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and raised in the Bronzeville neighborhood. After graduating from DuSable High School in 1954, he joined the United States Marine Corps and served for...
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Heights or Evanston, Illinois. He grew up in Chicago and attended DuSable High School, where he excelled in both football and basketball. The 1953–1954...
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students to move to the new school in February 1935. The new school was then named Jean Baptiste Point DuSable High School, after Chicago's first permanent...
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basketball team at DuSable High School alongside his younger brother, Russell. He was a midyear graduate and finished his high school career in January...
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Clifton became an outstanding basketball and baseball player at DuSable High School. He reversed his two names when sportswriters complained that his...
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mother from Mississippi. He studied music under Walter Dyett at DuSable High School, as had many other successful Chicago musicians (including Nat King...
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teenager, Jenkins entered DuSable High School, where he switched to clarinet and alto saxophone due to the fact that the school did not have an orchestra...
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and playing drums in the DuSable High School and at about the age of 14, formed a sort of a jazz band with two of his high school friends, Johnny Griffin...
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began singing and playing the piano by the age of eight. He attended DuSable High School studying music under Walter Dyett before receiving a scholarship...
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approach to music. He further refined his skills while attending DuSable High School, whose students included Von, Gene Ammons, Johnny Griffin, Red Holloway...
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Academy High School, the school Sam Cooke attended a few years later. Cole participated in Walter Dyett's music program at DuSable High School. He would...
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High School Cregier Vocational High School - closed at the end of the 1994-1995 school year DuSable High School Englewood Technical Prep Academy (1873–2008)...
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University, as well as his role as a part of two championship teams at DuSable High School in Chicago. Along with Shellie McMillon and Paxton Lumpkin, Brown...
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Angeles Rams in the sixth round of the 2016 NFL draft. Thomas attended DuSable High School in Chicago, Illinois, where he led the Panthers football team to...
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Public Schools operates the public schools on the South Side, including DuSable High School, Simeon Career Academy, John Hope College Prep High School and...
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list of school shootings in the United States before the year 2000 includes any school shootings that occurred at a K-12 public or private school, as well...
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Jackson moved with his family to Chicago where he graduated from DuSable High School in 1942. Before becoming state legislator, he was a grocer and auto...
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Chicago branch of Congress of Racial Equality. She graduated from DuSable High School in 1942. She then worked at the Wrigley Company and at the University...
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trumpeter and session musician from Chicago, Illinois. After studying at DuSable High School and Wright Jr. College (currently known as Wilbur Wright College)...
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stopped because his parents couldn't afford the lessons. He attended DuSable High School, where the music instructor Captain Walter Dyett chose him to play...
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Harold Washington (category Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law alumni)
Boarding School in Milwaukee from 1928 to 1932, Washington attended DuSable High School, a newly established racially segregated public school, and was...
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Western Illinois. Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended DuSable High School. As a senior, he contributed to his team's undefeated record in the...
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Homes. He attended DuSable High School. He only had significant playing time on the basketball team in his senior year. His high school teammate William...
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an early age. For high school, Thompson first attended Hyde Park Academy High School and later transferred to DuSable High School where he studied music...
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