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Paul Laurence Dunbar High School Paul Laurence Dunbar High School was established in 1870 as the Preparatory High School for Colored Youth. As the first public high school for nonwhite students in Washington, DC (and the entire nation), the school’s curriculum was ambitious from its inception, preparing students for college and university enrollment. U Street The U Street Corridor is a commercial and residential district in Northwest Washington, DC. U Street has long been a center of Washington's music scene, with the Lincoln Theatre, Howard Theatre, Bohemian Caverns, and other clubs like on 9th Street at Harrington's, and Chez Maurice Restaurants and historic jazz venues Howard University Founded November 20, 1866, Howard University is a federally chartered, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university (HBCU) in Washington, DC. The university is named after Major General Oliver O. Howard, a Civil War hero and Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, a U.S. government agency established in 1865 to aid freed blacks. Howard was also one of the early founders of the institution in Washington. 1 media/12241.jpg media/ DAR9034.jpg 2018-06-30T18:21:56+00:00 Kenton Rambsy 1a8e7c8308fe3da2a51e94dd08e0858bab2a9153 Section 3: Northwest as the Center of Jones’s DC Anonymous 72 Through analyzing Jones’s detailed location tagging, we can see that the NW, compared to the other quadrants, is the most common location for plot and character development. The majority of neighborhoods and landmarks mentioned are located in the NW as can be seen from the chart above. Even in the stories that have settings in other quadrants, NW is central in Jones’s DC geography. image header 2019-02-15T13:48:21+00:00 Anonymous