The Historic Booker T.Washington Sr. High School

In (a)   , Booker T. Washington Senior High School was designed as a public school for African Americans.

The February 1927 opening was delayed when the structure was (a)   during construction

The Historic Booker T. Washington Sr. High was the first high school for black students in South Florida.

• True

• False

BTWSHS became the second MDCPS to open as an Academy School.

• True

• False

Construction for the current Booker T. Washington Senior High School began in 1996 and the school was converted back to a high school in 1999.

• True

• False

BTWSHS serves the communities of Overtown, eastern Little Havana, Wynwood, Midtown,

+Downtown, Park West, Omni, Buena Vista, Brickell and southern Little Haiti.

• True

• False

The neighborhood of Overtown was originally called

(a)  

Local residents often go by the name “Towners.”

• True

• False

Overtown is the second-oldest continuously inhabited neighborhood of the Miami area

• True

• False

When Booker T. was converted to a middle school, the principal took the school colors of Orange and Black to the then new school, Carol City Senior High School, located in Miami Gardens. Since the re-establishment as a senior high school, Booker T. proudly identifies itself as the “Original Orange and Black.”

• True

• False