The school was part of the Prairie View Interscholastic League, the governing body for extra-curricular activities for Texas' African American high schools.
Competitive sports we a large part of the school’s history.
Booker T. Washington High School football team, 1938
Today, the school is a performing arts magnet, open to all students. (Joye CC BY-SA 2.0)
The school is designated a Dallas historical landmark.
Booker T. Washington High School was built in 1922 as a replacement for the Dallas Colored High School. The student body traces its origins to 1892, when the Dallas Board of Education created the segregated city’s first African American high school. During its first 17 years of operation, the often-overcrowded school served every African American student in Dallas County. In 1976, facing court-ordered desegregation, the Dallas Independent School District redesignated Booker T. Washington as a magnet school for artistically gifted students aspiring to future careers in the performing and visual arts.
Booker T. Washington High School
- 2501 Flora Street, Dallas, TX
- 972-925-1200
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- This is an operational high school; tours are not available to the general public.
