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Booker T. Washington High School (Oklahoma)

April 07, 2024

For other uses, see Booker T. Washington High School (disambiguation).

Booker T. Washington High School is a high school in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was named after the African-American education pioneer Booker T. Washington. It is part of the Tulsa Public Schools system.

Booker T. Washington High School
Booker T. Washington Pep Rally
Location
1514 East Zion Street

Tulsa
,
Oklahoma
74106

United States
Coordinates36°11′18″N 95°58′16″W / 36.188205°N 95.971009°W / 36.188205; -95.971009
Information
Type
Established1913 (1913)
PrincipalMelissa Woolridge
Faculty63.50 (FTE)[1]
Grades9-12
Number of students1,327 (2020-21)[1]
Student to teacher ratio20.90[1]
Color(s)Orange and Black    
MascotHornets
Websitebtw.tulsaschools.org

Overview edit

Booker T. Washington is a public high school that accepts students based upon their academic merit, rather than their geographical location. The school uses applicants' middle school grades and attendance record, as well as their Iowa Tests of Educational Development scores, to determine admission. To ensure greater ethnic, economic, and intellectual diversity, students who live in historically minority and economically depressed neighborhoods are offered preferential consideration.

History edit

Oklahoma statehood brought about segregated schools for African-American children. The first such school in Tulsa was a two-room wooden building built in 1908 on Hartford Avenue, between Cameron and Easton Streets. It served grades 1 through 8 until 1913. In that year, Dunbar Grade School opened at 504 Easton Street in an 18-room brick building, with a four-room frame building that served as a high school.[2]

Booker T. Washington High School was founded in 1913, with a class of fourteen students and a staff of two teachers. The principal was E.W. Woods, a native of Louisville, Mississippi, who had just moved to Tulsa from Memphis, Tennessee. According to legend, Woods walked all the way from Tennessee to Oklahoma when he learned the new school was advertising for a principal. The original school building was at the corner of Elgin Avenue and Easton Street, in the Greenwood district of Tulsa.[3]

By 1920, the four-room high school had been replaced by a three-story brick building. This continued to operate for nearly three decades.[2]

 
Original building, Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Tulsa Race Massacre edit

The high school escaped destruction during the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Immediately after the massacre, the American Red Cross used the building as its headquarters for relief activities. About 2,000 people were temporarily sheltered there. A hospital facility was set up, along with a dental clinic, a venereal disease clinic, and a medical dispensary. The Red Cross inoculated about 1,800 refugees against tetanus, typhoid and smallpox.[3]

Desegregation edit

The Tulsa Public Schools district was slow to react to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that de jure racial segregation was unconstitutional in the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed all racial segregation in the United States. During the 1970-71 school year a small number of progressive Caucasian students voluntarily transferred to Booker T. Washington in a special program called "Metro." The program was successful as a proof that voluntary desegregation would work at Booker T. Washington High. In 1973 Booker T. Washington was chosen to be the vehicle for Tulsa's school desegregation program. Tulsa was - and still is - racially divided along north–south lines, and the school was in historically African-American north Tulsa, making this the first integration program in a historically African-American school.

The Tulsa School Board established a system of desegregation busing. As part of this policy, Booker T. Washington became a magnet school; it no longer had a home neighborhood from which students were accepted. Students instead had to apply for admission and were drawn from across the district. A racial quota system was established and, until the 2004–2005 school year, 45% of the students accepted identified themselves as "white," 45% as "black," and 10% came from other ethnic categories. However, in 2003, the Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger that quota systems constituted racial discrimination and violated the Constitution. Booker T. Washington High School accepted the ruling and eliminated their quota system in favor of a system based on geography. Due to Tulsa's regional demographics, this system is calibrated to maintain a similar racial distribution to the old quota system.[4]

Present day edit

The fourth home of the Booker T. Washington High School opened at 1631 E. Woodrow Place in September 1950, graduating its first class in 1951. That building was replaced by a new one at the same location in 2003.[2]

Booker T. Washington was one of the first Tulsa public high schools to offer Advanced Placement courses and began offering the International Baccalaureate program in 1983.

The 2003–2004 school year marked the 90th anniversary of Booker T. Washington and the dedication of a new $25 million, 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m2) school building. This building was designed to encompass the rich heritage of the school and tried to incorporate many themes from the previous facility. A portion of the original building has been preserved.

Academics and administration edit

Booker T. Washington is accredited by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) to grant the IB Diploma to students who complete the two-year programme. Booker T. also offers Advanced Placement courses, with the exception of AP Italian Language and Culture and AP United States Government and Politics. Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate courses are taught in English, math, social studies, science, computer health, foreign language, and the arts.

Booker T. Washington High School was part of a study by the Education Trust and the ACT. Published in 2005, On Course for Success focused on high performing, diversely populated schools that provide students with college-preparatory courses, qualified teachers, flexible teaching styles, and extra tutorial support. The study identified specific academic skills that should to be taught to high school students to prepare graduates for college. The study focused on English, math, and science courses, and claimed that Booker T. Washington was "doing things right."[5]

The school offers eight world languages: Spanish, French, German, Latin, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and Russian. All are offered through level V. In 2005, 81% of the student body was enrolled in a world language, and 10% was enrolled in a level IV language class or higher. Booker T. Washington has active exchange programs with China, Japan, Russia, Germany, Mexico, Paraguay, Venezuela, India, and many European countries.

In 2010, Booker T. Washington placed 74th in Newsweek magazine's list of the top 100 public high schools in the US. The magazine ranked high schools according to the ratio of Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate tests taken by all students to the number of graduating seniors.[6]

State championships edit

  • Academic Bowl 20: 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011,[7] 2012, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021
  • Speech And Debate 10: 1978, 1979, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2012, 2013, 2015

National championships edit

  • Academic Bowl: 1992 and 2008[8]
  • NFL Lincoln Douglas Debate: 1983
  • NFL Poetry Interpretation: 1998
  • NFL United States Extemporaneous Speaking: 2013, 2014, 2016

Athletics edit

Booker T. Washington has won 53 state championships.[9] Several former Booker T. athletes have gone on to the NFL and NBA, such as Wayman Tisdale and Robert Meachem. Booker T. plays home football games at S.E. Williams Stadium.

In 2011, Booker T. Washington's 2010-2011 repeat 5A State Championship Basketball team was ranked No. 20 in the RivalsHigh100 top basketball teams in the nation.

State championships edit

  • Boys' Basketball 16: 1973, 1977, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2010, 2011, 2019[10]
  • Girls' Basketball 3: 2008, 2009, 2013, 2017
  • Football 9: 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1984, 2008,2010, 2017[11]
  • Boys' Soccer 7: 1985, 1992, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2008
  • Girls' Soccer: 2018, 2019
  • Boys' Swimming: 3: 1981, 1985, 2018
  • Boys' Track 4: 1970, 1979, 1982, 1984
  • Girls' Track 9: 1974, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 2004, 2005, 2010
  • Wrestling 4: 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979
  • Volleyball 2: 1976, 2011

Notable alumni edit

Athletics edit

Other notable alumni edit

Notable faculty edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "BOOKER T. WASHINGTON HS". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved June 11, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Historic Tulsa Blogspot. "Booker T. Washington High School, 1913." September 3, 2009.
  3. ^ a b Hirsch, James S. Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and its Legacy. 2002. ISBN 0-618-10813-0.
  4. ^ "Tulsa School Board: Magnet schools quotas tossed". Tulsa World. December 16, 2003. Retrieved October 11, 2007.
  5. ^ On Course for Success 2015-08-19 at the Wayback Machine, ACT 2005.
  6. ^ . Newsweek. May 28, 2007. Archived from the original on October 6, 2007. Retrieved October 11, 2007.
  7. ^ . March 9, 2011. Archived from the original on March 9, 2011.
  8. ^ "National Academic Championship highlights 2018". www.qunlimited.com.
  9. ^ "OSSAA.com". www.ossaa.com.
  10. ^ Lewis, Barry (March 13, 2011). . tulsaworld.com. Archived from the original on October 14, 2012.
  11. ^ Lewis, Barry (December 5, 2010). . tulsaworld.com. Archived from the original on October 14, 2012.
  12. ^ "About". Denver Nicks. Retrieved September 29, 2018.
  13. ^ Wyke, Michael (April 21, 2007). . tulsaworld.com. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved May 15, 2007.

External links edit

  • School Web Site
  • Booker T. Washington National Alumni Association
  • The International Baccalaureate Organization website
  • The Advanced Placement Program website

April 07, 2024
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For other uses see Booker T Washington High School disambiguation Booker T Washington High School is a high school in Tulsa Oklahoma It was named after the African American education pioneer Booker T Washington It is part of the Tulsa Public Schools system Booker T Washington High SchoolBooker T Washington Pep RallyLocation1514 East Zion StreetTulsa Oklahoma 74106United StatesCoordinates36 11 18 N 95 58 16 W 36 188205 N 95 971009 W 36 188205 95 971009InformationTypeCo Educational Public Secondary Special EdEstablished1913 1913 PrincipalMelissa WoolridgeFaculty63 50 FTE 1 Grades9 12Number of students1 327 2020 21 1 Student to teacher ratio20 90 1 Color s Orange and Black MascotHornetsWebsitebtw wbr tulsaschools wbr org Contents 1 Overview 2 History 2 1 Tulsa Race Massacre 2 2 Desegregation 2 3 Present day 3 Academics and administration 3 1 State championships 3 2 National championships 4 Athletics 4 1 State championships 5 Notable alumni 5 1 Athletics 5 2 Other notable alumni 6 Notable faculty 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksOverview editBooker T Washington is a public high school that accepts students based upon their academic merit rather than their geographical location The school uses applicants middle school grades and attendance record as well as their Iowa Tests of Educational Development scores to determine admission To ensure greater ethnic economic and intellectual diversity students who live in historically minority and economically depressed neighborhoods are offered preferential consideration History editOklahoma statehood brought about segregated schools for African American children The first such school in Tulsa was a two room wooden building built in 1908 on Hartford Avenue between Cameron and Easton Streets It served grades 1 through 8 until 1913 In that year Dunbar Grade School opened at 504 Easton Street in an 18 room brick building with a four room frame building that served as a high school 2 Booker T Washington High School was founded in 1913 with a class of fourteen students and a staff of two teachers The principal was E W Woods a native of Louisville Mississippi who had just moved to Tulsa from Memphis Tennessee According to legend Woods walked all the way from Tennessee to Oklahoma when he learned the new school was advertising for a principal The original school building was at the corner of Elgin Avenue and Easton Street in the Greenwood district of Tulsa 3 By 1920 the four room high school had been replaced by a three story brick building This continued to operate for nearly three decades 2 nbsp Original building Booker T Washington High School in Tulsa Oklahoma Tulsa Race Massacre edit The high school escaped destruction during the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 Immediately after the massacre the American Red Cross used the building as its headquarters for relief activities About 2 000 people were temporarily sheltered there A hospital facility was set up along with a dental clinic a venereal disease clinic and a medical dispensary The Red Cross inoculated about 1 800 refugees against tetanus typhoid and smallpox 3 Desegregation edit The Tulsa Public Schools district was slow to react to the U S Supreme Court ruling that de jure racial segregation was unconstitutional in the Brown v Board of Education decision in 1954 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which outlawed all racial segregation in the United States During the 1970 71 school year a small number of progressive Caucasian students voluntarily transferred to Booker T Washington in a special program called Metro The program was successful as a proof that voluntary desegregation would work at Booker T Washington High In 1973 Booker T Washington was chosen to be the vehicle for Tulsa s school desegregation program Tulsa was and still is racially divided along north south lines and the school was in historically African American north Tulsa making this the first integration program in a historically African American school The Tulsa School Board established a system of desegregation busing As part of this policy Booker T Washington became a magnet school it no longer had a home neighborhood from which students were accepted Students instead had to apply for admission and were drawn from across the district A racial quota system was established and until the 2004 2005 school year 45 of the students accepted identified themselves as white 45 as black and 10 came from other ethnic categories However in 2003 the Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v Bollinger and Gratz v Bollinger that quota systems constituted racial discrimination and violated the Constitution Booker T Washington High School accepted the ruling and eliminated their quota system in favor of a system based on geography Due to Tulsa s regional demographics this system is calibrated to maintain a similar racial distribution to the old quota system 4 Present day edit The fourth home of the Booker T Washington High School opened at 1631 E Woodrow Place in September 1950 graduating its first class in 1951 That building was replaced by a new one at the same location in 2003 2 Booker T Washington was one of the first Tulsa public high schools to offer Advanced Placement courses and began offering the International Baccalaureate program in 1983 The 2003 2004 school year marked the 90th anniversary of Booker T Washington and the dedication of a new 25 million 250 000 square foot 23 000 m2 school building This building was designed to encompass the rich heritage of the school and tried to incorporate many themes from the previous facility A portion of the original building has been preserved Academics and administration editBooker T Washington is accredited by the International Baccalaureate Organization IBO to grant the IB Diploma to students who complete the two year programme Booker T also offers Advanced Placement courses with the exception of AP Italian Language and Culture and AP United States Government and Politics Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate courses are taught in English math social studies science computer health foreign language and the arts Booker T Washington High School was part of a study by the Education Trust and the ACT Published in 2005 On Course for Success focused on high performing diversely populated schools that provide students with college preparatory courses qualified teachers flexible teaching styles and extra tutorial support The study identified specific academic skills that should to be taught to high school students to prepare graduates for college The study focused on English math and science courses and claimed that Booker T Washington was doing things right 5 The school offers eight world languages Spanish French German Latin Chinese Japanese Italian and Russian All are offered through level V In 2005 81 of the student body was enrolled in a world language and 10 was enrolled in a level IV language class or higher Booker T Washington has active exchange programs with China Japan Russia Germany Mexico Paraguay Venezuela India and many European countries In 2010 Booker T Washington placed 74th in Newsweek magazine s list of the top 100 public high schools in the US The magazine ranked high schools according to the ratio of Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate tests taken by all students to the number of graduating seniors 6 State championships edit Academic Bowl 20 1991 1992 1994 1996 1997 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2011 7 2012 2013 2016 2019 2020 2021 Speech And Debate 10 1978 1979 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2012 2013 2015National championships edit Academic Bowl 1992 and 2008 8 NFL Lincoln Douglas Debate 1983 NFL Poetry Interpretation 1998 NFL United States Extemporaneous Speaking 2013 2014 2016Athletics editBooker T Washington has won 53 state championships 9 Several former Booker T athletes have gone on to the NFL and NBA such as Wayman Tisdale and Robert Meachem Booker T plays home football games at S E Williams Stadium In 2011 Booker T Washington s 2010 2011 repeat 5A State Championship Basketball team was ranked No 20 in the RivalsHigh100 top basketball teams in the nation State championships edit Boys Basketball 16 1973 1977 1981 1984 1985 1986 1987 1995 1996 1997 1999 2001 2002 2010 2011 2019 10 Girls Basketball 3 2008 2009 2013 2017 Football 9 1967 1968 1969 1971 1973 1984 2008 2010 2017 11 Boys Soccer 7 1985 1992 1997 1998 2000 2001 2008 Girls Soccer 2018 2019 Boys Swimming 3 1981 1985 2018 Boys Track 4 1970 1979 1982 1984 Girls Track 9 1974 1990 1992 1993 1994 1997 2004 2005 2010 Wrestling 4 1976 1977 1978 1979 Volleyball 2 1976 2011Notable alumni editAthletics edit Wayman Tisdale NBA 1985 2nd overall draft pick Indiana Pacers forward 1985 1997 multiple teams 1983 1984 and 1985 first team All America University of Oklahoma 1984 Olympic gold medalist jazz bassist and recording artist Etan Thomas NBA 2000 12th overall draft pick Dallas Mavericks forward center Washington Wizards 2000 09 2000 Big East Conference Defensive Player of the Year Syracuse University Mark Anderson NFL 2006 159th overall draft pick defensive end Chicago Bears Houston Texans New England Patriots University of Alabama Roy Foster MLB outfielder Cleveland Indians 1970 1972 Reuben Gant NFL 1974 18th overall draft pick tight end Buffalo Bills Justice Hill NFL 2019 113th overall draft pick running back Baltimore Ravens Daxton Hill NFL 2022 31st overall draft pick defensive back Cincinnati Bengals Ryan Humphrey NBA 1997 Former professional basketball player Played basketball at Notre Dame and Oklahoma R W McQuarters NFL 1998 28th overall draft pick San Francisco 49ers cornerback New York Giants 2006 08 2008 Super Bowl winner with Giants Robert Meachem NFL 2007 27th overall draft pick wide receiver New Orleans Saints 2010 Super Bowl winner with Saints 2006 All America University of Tennessee Kenny Monday 3 time Olympic wrestler 1988 welterweight gold medalist and 1992 welterweight silver medalist 2x NCAA champion Ryan Humphrey NBA 2002 19th overall draft pick Utah Jazz forward 2002 2005 multiple teams Felix Jones NFL 2008 22nd overall draft pick running back Dallas Cowboys 2008 12 2006 and 2007 All America as kick returner University of Arkansas Tommy Manning runner and member of 2010 U S Mountain Running Team J W Lockett NFL fullback Dallas Cowboys and Montreal Alouettes Tyler Lockett NFL 2015 69th overall draft pick wide receiver and returner Seattle Seahawks 2011 and 2014 All American at Kansas State University father Kevin Lockett and uncle Aaron Lockett also went to Booker T Washington and both played in the NFL Garrick McGee offensive coordinator University of Illinois Michael Nsien MLS Defender Los Angeles Galaxy 2005 USL Championship Head Coach FC Tulsa 2018 2022 Head Coach United States Soccer Federation U 19 MYNTOther notable alumni edit John Hope Franklin historian and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Allan Heinberg film scriptwriter wrote scripts for Grey s Anatomy writer for Marvel Comic screenwriter of Wonder Woman 2017 Brennan Brown actor Chicago Med and The Man in the High Castle Josh Fadem Comedian Actor 30 Rock Better Call Saul Judy Eason McIntyre State Senator for District 11 in Oklahoma Denver Nicks journalist and author 12 Dan Piraro syndicated cartoonist Bizarro Thaddeus Strassberger opera director Amber Valletta model and actress citation needed Charlie Wilson 1971 and Ronnie Wilson 1966 R amp B singer songwriter producer and the former lead vocalist for The Gap Band Collaborator of Kanye West Snoop Dogg R Kelly Justin Timberlake and will i am Daniel H Wilson columnist for Popular Mechanics and author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming RebellionNotable faculty editTom Adelson State Senator teaches Political Philosophy Shea Seals head basketball coach former NBA Player 13 John Waldron Social studies teacher elected State Representative 2018 See also editList of things named after Booker T WashingtonReferences edit a b c BOOKER T WASHINGTON HS National Center for Education Statistics Retrieved June 11 2022 a b c Historic Tulsa Blogspot Booker T Washington High School 1913 September 3 2009 a b Hirsch James S Riot and Remembrance The Tulsa Race War and its Legacy 2002 ISBN 0 618 10813 0 Tulsa School Board Magnet schools quotas tossed Tulsa World December 16 2003 Retrieved October 11 2007 On Course for Success Archived 2015 08 19 at the Wayback Machine ACT 2005 The Top of the Class Newsweek May 28 2007 Archived from the original on October 6 2007 Retrieved October 11 2007 Three Tulsa area academic bowl teams win state championship Tulsa World March 9 2011 Archived from the original on March 9 2011 National Academic Championship highlights 2018 www qunlimited com OSSAA com www ossaa com Lewis Barry March 13 2011 Booker T Washington repeats as Class 5A boys basketball state champions tulsaworld com Archived from the original on October 14 2012 Lewis Barry December 5 2010 Booker T Washington routs East Central for 5A state football title tulsaworld com Archived from the original on October 14 2012 About Denver Nicks Retrieved September 29 2018 Wyke Michael April 21 2007 Seals is welcomed as coach tulsaworld com Archived from the original on September 27 2007 Retrieved May 15 2007 External links editSchool Web Site Booker T Washington National Alumni Association Speech and Debate Team Website The Newsweek article with the complete list of the top 1 000 U S high schools The International Baccalaureate Organization website The Advanced Placement Program website The On Course for Success report Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Booker T Washington High School Oklahoma amp oldid 1198535126, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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