The Historic Booker T.Washington Sr. High School

In____, 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 ______ 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

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