Fun Fact

The men’s basketball team has never lost a game when wearing the Douglass jerseys!

Lydia Urice Editor-in-Chief

Art by Lily Musgraves

The one room school burned down so the school moved back to First Baptist and then an old store on Gore Avenue and Moody Avenue.

The school was named or of Frederick Douglass. school had been unnamed.

two-room frame school was built on Holland Avenue between Fox Place and Ravine Avenue.

Before Douglass High there was Sumner

Prior to the construction of Douglass High travel to Sumner High School in St. Louis 1875 as the oldest African American high River. The tuition for Sumner was $100. Parents price. In 1915, the parents went to the school the district agreed to pay $75 of the required the district agreed to open a high school department