Symbol of the fight against racial segregation gets historic designation in Montgomery Co.

A Boyds, Maryland, school named for the Howard University graduate and educator who pushed to improve schools for Black children during segregation has been added to Montgomery County’s master plan for historic preservation.

The county council voted unanimously on July 11 to designate the Edward U. Taylor School a historic site.

When the council took its vote, Council member Andrew Friedson told his colleagues that preserving the history of what he called the “the architecture of racial segregation” creates a way to “educate the public, provide spaces to deliberate past and modern race relations, and discuss social justice and tolerance.”..

Symbol of the fight against racial segregation gets historic designation in Montgomery Co. - WTOP News