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1928 | High school
A full high school program was instated after phasing in students for the previous four years. Summer school was also started this year. The first high school graduates graduated in the following spring (1929).
1898 | First Eighth
High School, High School
High School, black students had to City. Sumner was established in school west of the Mississippi Parents had trouble paying that school board to ask for help. In 1918 required $100 for tuition, and in 1925, department at Douglass.
2007 | Douglass Night Begins
As a tribute to Douglass High School, Webster basketball teams wear Douglas Jerseys on Douglass Night.
1956 | Douglass Integrated with Webster
As a result of Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954, Douglass integrated with Webster Groves High School
1929 First Douglass High School graduation
In May
1929, nine students became the first graduating class of Douglass High School. These graduates were Hildered Campbell, Mayette Gill, Louis Harden, David Hawkins, Mayda Morgan, Helen Morton, Imelda Thomas, Robert Thomas and Thelma Weeks. The principal, Herbert S. Davis, left the high school with this class after accepting a job as a social studies teacher at another school.