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Opportunities and obstacles

Rockville Colored High opened in the fall of 1927 with 40 students — 22 girls and 18 boys in Grade 8 — in a long yellow three-room building. Some people thought the school, with all its windows on one side, looked like a 'chicken house,' according to the records of Professor Noah Clarke, chairman of the United Trustees of Montgomery County, the group of African American community leaders who lobbied the county Board of Education for permission to establish the school. But, to its founders and students, Rockville Colored High School looked like something entirely different. It looked like opportunity.

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Each year, the school added a grade so that by 1931, Rockville served students in Grades 8-11, the highest grade available to students at that time.

Though the promise embodied in the new school was real, so too were the obstacles. Irregular attendance was not uncommon, as students stayed out to fulfill farm chores in the then-agrarian county. Money was a persistent problem. In fact, the community itself raised a good part of the funds to build the school, and additional funds were provided by the Rosenwald Fund, created by philanthropist Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck and Company to improve opportunities for African Americans. Scant funds and a shorter school term also meant that the African American schools often closed earlier in the spring and opened later in the fall than the White schools.

But the biggest discouragement may have been the long and arduous commute for many students. Passing by White high schools much closer to their homes, some students traveled well over 20 miles to reach the Rockville school, located near what is now the intersection of North Washington and Beall streets, in the midst of a thriving business and residential neighborhood for African Americans. Once again the community, led by the United Trustees, dug into its pockets and bought a used Model T bus. The seller of the bus was the county Board of Education. A year later, the community purchased a second bus from a Baltimore company, and later yet the Board gave the school a third bus. The United Trustees continued to pay for the drivers and the maintenance, however, and students paid a monthly fee to ride the bus. Depending on how far they lived from the school, students paid up to $6 a month for bus service, a hardship for many students and another deterrent to continuing their education.

The problems for the schools intensified during the Great Depression as businesses shuttered their doors and jobs vanished. In 1930 the Board agreed to provide a $2 monthly allowance to offset the cost for each student who rode the bus. In 1933, the Board took over the costs of the maintenance of the buses and the salaries of the drivers.

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Despite the deepening shadow of the Depression, the Rockville school showed steady progress during its early years. By 1931, it had expanded its curriculum, hired more staff, and added some sports. However, the seemingly contradictory challenges of student retention and rapidly increasing enrollment remained. Of the 40 eighth graders who entered Rockville in 1927, only 9 completed Grade 11. At the same time, the growing enrollment burdened the already-minimal facilities.

By 1931, the Board rented additional space in a nearby building from the Order of Galilean Fisherman, an organization dedicated to community service, to supplement classroom space. The high school also started holding chemistry classes in the basement of Rockville Colored Elementary School next door. Finally, in 1932, under community pressure, the Board approved the establishment of a new high school to replace Rockville Colored High. This time, the Board would pay for the school, though the United Trustees were instrumental in getting the project approved.

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Lincoln High School opened in 1935 on an 8-1/2-acre lot on Stonestreet Avenue in the African American community of Lincoln Park in Rockville. Although the much larger building resolved, at least temporarily, the space problems of the old school, it was not quite the 'brick building' that the United Trustees had requested. Piece by piece, an old abandoned wooden building in Takoma Park was dismantled and reassembled on the Lincoln Park site and reclad in red bricks. Nonetheless, the 'new' school was still cause for celebration. The six classrooms allowed a broadening of the academic offerings and accommodated more students and staff. That first year, 236 students in Grades 8-11 could choose from three curricula—academic, general, and vocational—and a wide variety of extracurricular activities.