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 Sumner High School - St. Louis, Missouri Posted by:  BruceS
N 38° 39.598 W 090° 14.325
15S E 740262 N 4282662
Historic high school in north central St. Louis, Missouri.
Waymark Code: WM6989
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 04/26/2009
Views: 2
"Sumner High School, also known as Charles E. Sumner High School, is a St. Louis public high school that was the first high school for African-American students west of the Mississippi River. Together with Vashon High School, Sumner was one of the two segregated public high schools in St. Louis for African-American students. Established in 1875 only after extensive lobbying by some of St. Louis' African-American residents, Sumner moved to its current location in 1908....
Summer High, opened in 1875, and was the first high school opened for African-Americans west of the Mississippi. The school is named after the well-known abolitionist senator Charles E. Sumner. The high school was established on Eleventh Street in St. Louis between Poplar and Spruce Street, in response to demands to provide educational opportunities, following a requirement that school boards support black education with The Radical Constitution of 1865 in Missouri. The school was moved in the 1880s because parents complained that their children were walking past the gallows on their way to school. Sumner was the only Black public high school in St. Louis until 1927. Famous instructors include Edward Bouchet
Notable alumn
- Arthur Ashe (1943-1993), tennis player.
- Chuck Berry (1926-), musician.
- Grace Bumbry (1937-), opera singer
- Hon. William Clay (1931-), politician
- Billy Davis, Jr. (1940-), The Fifth Dimension
- Dick Gregory (1932-), comedian.
- Robert Guillaume (1927-), actor known for portraying the character Benson DuBois on the ABC sitcom Soap and its spinoff Benson.
- Robert McFerrin (1921-2006), opera singer and father of Bobby McFerrin.
- Wendell O. Pruitt (1920-1945) pioneering military pilot and Tuskegee Airman in whose honor the notorious Pruitt-Igoe housing projects were named.
- Tina Turner (1939-), musician.
- Rev. Steven G. Thompson-Sr (1945-), Senior Pastor/Teacher at the Historic Leonard Missionary Baptist Church of St. Louis, MO"
~ Wikipedia
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