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James B. Dudley High School

{{short description|Historic school building in North Carolina, United States}}

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|streetaddress = 1200 Lincoln St.

|city = Greensboro, North Carolina

|zipcode = 27401

|country = United States

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|schooltype = Public high school
secondary school

|founded = {{start date and age|1929|p=1}}

|ceeb = 341605

|principal = Marcus Gause

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|teaching_staff = 91.50 (FTE)

|ratio = 16.01

|campus type = Suburban

|gender = Co-educational

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|district = Guilford County Schools

|enrollment = 1,465 (2023–2024){{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3701920&SchoolPageNum=4&ID=370192000768|title=James B Dundley High|publisher=National Center for Education Statistics|access-date=December 16, 2024}}

|schedtyp = Block

|schedule = Traditional (Late August–Early June)

|hours_in_day = Monday–Friday, 9:15 A.M.–4:20 P.M.

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|colors = Blue and Gold
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|mascot = Panther

|nickname = Panthers

|sports = 15 varsity teams (7 male, 8 female)

|athletics_conference = NCHSAA All-Metro 4A

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| name = James Benson Dudley Senior High School and Gymnasium

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| location= 1200 Lincoln St., Greensboro, North Carolina

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| built = {{Start date|1929}}, 1936, 1959

| architect = Hartmann, Charles C.; et.al.

| architecture = Classical Revival, Late Gothic Revival

| added = April 11, 2003

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James Benson Dudley High School is a four-year public high school located in Guilford County in the city of Greensboro, North Carolina. Dudley High School was founded in 1929 as the first black high school in Guilford County, in a school system segregated by law. The school was named for James Benson Dudley (1859–1925).

History

The high school building was designed by architect Charles C. Hartmann and built in 1929. James B. Dudley Senior High School is a three-story, U-shaped, brick building with Classical Revival and Collegiate Gothic design elements. It has a one-story slightly projecting entrance portico with Doric order columns added in the mid-1970s, a stepped parapet, and crenellated stair towers. The gymnasium was attached in 1936. A separate brick gymnasium building was constructed in 1959.{{Cite web | author=Jennifer F. Martin| title=James Benson Dudley Senior High School and Gymnasium| work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date = December 2002| url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/GF1398.pdf | format = pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | access-date = 2014-12-01}}

James Benson Dudley Senior High School and Gymnasium was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

The school was central to the 1969 Greensboro uprising when school officials refused to recognize the validity of a write-in candidate for student council, allegedly due to his activism in the Black Power movement.{{cite book|last=North Carolina Advisory Committee on Civil Rights|title=Trouble in Greensboro: A Report of an Open Meeting Concerning Disturbances at Dudley High School and North Carolina A&T State University|date=March 1970|url=http://library.uncg.edu/dp/crg/item.aspx?i=38|ref=CITEREFNC Advisory Committee1970|access-date=2012-09-03|archive-date=2013-05-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522023853/http://library.uncg.edu/dp/crg/item.aspx?i=38|url-status=dead}}{{cite web | url = http://www.library.ncat.edu/resources/archives/grimes.html | last = Bluford Library | title = Willie Grimes | publisher = North Carolina A&T University | access-date = September 2, 2012 | archive-date = December 20, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131220131955/http://www.library.ncat.edu/resources/archives/grimes.html | url-status = dead }} In 1971 through desegregation, Dudley's student population integrated.

Today, the make-up of the school consists of a diverse student enrollment with a predominantly African-American population. Dudley has a traditional education program as well as the Dudley Science, Math, and Technology Academy magnet program. The Science, Math, and Technology Academy provides high-caliber students a strong college preparatory background, which emphasizes mathematics and science along with sufficient writing, research, and technological skills. During their senior year, Dudley Academy Students attend classes on college campuses.

Dudley won two back-to-back football rings. The school colors are blue and gold. Dudley High School has an Advance Vehicle Technology (AVT) Team that competes in an international competition called the Shell Eco Marathon.

Notable people

=Alumni=

  • Elreta Melton Alexander-Ralston (class of 1934), first African-American judge in North Carolina, first black woman to graduate from Columbia Law School{{cite web|title=Dudleyalumni - Notable Alumni|url=http://www.dudleypride.org/notable-alumni|website=Dudley Alumni Association|access-date=12 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220235324/http://www.dudleypride.org/notable-alumni|archive-date=20 December 2016|url-status=dead}}
  • Tom Alston, first African-American Major League Baseball player for the St. Louis CardinalsMcLaughlin, Nancy. (Feb 27, 2018). [https://greensboro.com/news/local_news/these-triad-residents-made-black-history-too/article_ef28ad40-7ee4-5220-8291-0246236310a4.html These Triad residents made black history, too]. Greensboro News & Record. Retrieved Aug 29, 2020.
  • David Amerson (class of 2010), football player for Oakland Raiders{{cite news|last1=Durham|first1=Andy|title=There's something different about David Amerson and it's a good thing!|url=http://www.greensborosports.com/2012/08/27/theres-something-different-about-david-amersondudley-hsn-c-state-and-its-a-good-thing/|access-date=12 December 2016|work=Greensboro Sports|date=27 August 2012}}
  • Clarence Avant, music executive, known as "Godfather of Black Music", left Dudley in junior year (1947)
  • Ezell A. Blair, Jr. (class of 1959), African American civil rights activist, one of Greensboro Four{{cite web|title=Jibreel Khazan (Formerly Ezell Blair Jr |work=The Greensboro Four |publisher=Video Dialog Inc. |url=http://www.februaryonedocumentary.com/jibreel.html

|access-date=2008-01-21}}

=Faculty=

  • Nelle A. Coley, famed educator and civil rights activist, taught English at James B. Dudley High School for over thirty years.

See also

References

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External links

  • [http://dudley.gcsnc.com/pages/Dudley_High Official website]

{{National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina}}

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Category:Historically segregated African-American schools in North Carolina

Category:School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina

Category:1929 establishments in North Carolina

Category:Educational institutions established in 1929

Category:National Register of Historic Places in Guilford County, North Carolina

Category:Public high schools in North Carolina

Category:Schools in Greensboro, North Carolina

Category:Magnet schools in North Carolina

Category:Brick buildings and structures in North Carolina