Friendship Armstrong Academy is a public charter school located in the Truxton Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C.. Historically a black school, it is housed in the former Armstrong Manual Training School, also known as the Samuel Chapman Armstrong Technical High School.
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History
The building was designed by local architect Waddy B. Wood in 1902. The Renaissance Revival building was one of two segregated manual training schools constructed for the city's African-American youth. It was named for Samuel C. Armstrong. It was dedicated by Booker T. Washington, on October 24, 1902.
The building served as Veterans High School, between 1958 and 1964. Since 1964, it has served as the Armstrong Adult Education Center. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The Dorothy Height Charter School operated in the building until its charter was revoked in 2015. It is currently functioning as an elementary public charter school under the name Friendship Armstrong Academy.
Principals
- Wilson Bruce Evans
- Garnet C. Wilkinson
- Carter G. Woodson
- Benetta B. Washington
- Francis A. Gregory
- Lashawn Brown
- Jeffery Scanlon
Graduates
- Jimmy Cobb
- Ellsworth Davis
- Billy Eckstine
- Duke Ellington
- Lillian Evanti
- John D. Fauntleroy
- Anita Ford Alien
- Len Ford
- Rick Henderson
- Bill Kenny
- John Malachi
- Bubba Morton
- Hubert B. Pair
- Charlie Rouse
- William Robert Smalls
- Decatur Trotter
- Samuel Wilbert Tucker
- Rufus P. Turner
- John A. Wilson.
- Willie Wood
- Elizabeth Yancey
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