Howard High School of Technology

Infobox_nrhp | name =Howard High School
nrhp_type=nhl


caption =
location= 13th and Poplar Streets, Wilmington, Delaware
lat_degrees = 39
lat_minutes = 44
lat_seconds = 47.6
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 75
long_minutes = 32
long_seconds = 29.6
long_direction = W
locmapin = Delaware
area =
built =1867
architect= James Oscar Batelle
architecture= No Style Listed
designated= April 4, 2005cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=2103797744&ResourceType=Building
title=Howard High School |accessdate=2007-10-02|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = February 21, 1985cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Local
refnum=85000309Infobox Secondary school
name = Howard High School of Technology

established = 1928 (incorporated into the New Castle County Vocational-Technical School District in 1978)
type = Vocational-Technical Secondary
students = 871
grades = 09–12
city = Wilmington
state = Delaware
country = USA
district = New Castle County Vocational-Technical School District
campus = Urban
colors = Blue and White
mascot = Wildcats
free_label_1 = Athletics
free_1 = Blue Hen Conference, Flight "B"
website = http://www.nccvotech.com/

Howard High School of Technology, formerly Howard High School, is now a vocational-technical high school in Wilmington, Delaware. When becoming a vo-tech school, the school was named Howard Career Center. The school became Howard High School of Technology in 1994, to return to the original school name. Before becoming a vo-tech school, it was an all-black school, subject of Gebhart v. Belton, a 1953 desegregation court case. Parents of students bussed to Howard sued to allow admittance to all-white Claymont High School. Upon appeal to the U.S. Supreme court, it combined with four other cases, and thus was one of five schools subject of the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education U.S. supreme court case. The Howard case was the only one that had resulted in an order of desegregation at the state level. The Supreme Court ruling overturned "separate but equal" doctrine and ordered desegregation in all of the cases. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2005.,citation|title=PDFlink| [http://www.nps.gov/nhl/designations/samples/de/Howard%20High%20School.pdf National Historic Landmark Nomination: Howard High School] |87.4 KiB |author=Flavia W. Rutkosky and Robin Bodo|date=January 5, 2004|publisher=National Park Service]

Howard High School was named after Oliver Otis Howard (November 8, 1830 – October 26, 1909) a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. He was a corps commander noted for suffering two humiliating defeats, at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, but he recovered from the setbacks while posted in the Western Theater, and served there successfully as a corps and army commander.

It is among four high schools within the New Castle County Vocational-Technical School District, which includes Delcastle Technical High School in Newport, Hodgson Vo-Tech High School in Glasgow, and St. Georges Technical High School in St. Georges.

It is located at 13th Street and Poplar Street, in Wilmington.

References

External links

chool District

* [http://www.nccvotech.com/ New Castle County Vo-Tech District Website]
* [http://www.nccvotech.com/dths.asp Delcastle Technical High School Website]
* [http://www.nccvotech.com/hvths.asp Hodgson Vo-Tech High School Website]
* [http://www.nccvotech.com/hhst.asp Howard High School of Technology Website]
* [http://www.nccvotech.com/sgths.asp St. Georges Technical High School Website]
* [http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/121brown/index.htm "Brown v. Board: Five Communities That Changed America," a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan]