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Items Tagged "Banneker Elementary School"

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Deborah Lee, former assistant principal at Emerick Elementary, will be the new principal at Banneker Elementary in Middleburg.

Fred Drummond, Banneker's principal from 1953 to 1958 and one of his former students, Janet Smith Wiggins at the 60th anniversary celebration of the school.

Current students at Benneker Elementary performed a musical on the history of Benjamin Banneker, the school's namesake.

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News Stories

An Elementary History Lesson

Once All-Black, Banneker Celebrates Its 60th Anniversary

Thursday, June 19, 2008

When Janet Wiggins was a student at Loudoun's all-black Banneker Elementary School in the 1950s, she used hand-me-down textbooks from white students. Her school didn't have a library, so she checked out books every couple of weeks from a bookmobile. Read story »

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