Dudley High School
*Dudley High School (North Carolina) is celebrated on this date in 1929. This is a four-year public high school located in Greensboro, North Carolina. Dudley High School was founded in 1929 as the first Black high school in Guilford County, in a school system segregated by law.
The school was named after James Benson Dudley, designed by architect Charles C. Hartmann, and built in 1929. James B. Dudley Senior High School is a three-story, U-shaped brick building with Classical Revival and Collegiate Gothic design elements. It has a one-story, slightly projecting entrance portico with Doric order columns (added in the mid-1970s), a stepped parapet, and crenelated stair towers. The gymnasium came in 1936. A separate brick gymnasium building was constructed in 1959.
The school was central to the 1969 Greensboro uprising when school officials refused to recognize the validity of a write-in candidate for student council, allegedly due to his activism in the Black Power movement. In 1971, through desegregation, Dudley's student population was integrated. Today, the school is predominantly African American students. Dudley has a traditional education program and the Dudley Science, Math, and Technology Academy magnet program. The Science, Math, and Technology Academy provides high-caliber students with a strong college preparatory background, emphasizing mathematics and science and sufficient writing, research, and technological skills.
During their senior year, Dudley Academy Students attend classes on college campuses. Dudley won two back-to-back football rings. The school colors are blue and gold. Dudley High School has an Advance Vehicle Technology (AVT) Team that competes in an international competition called the Shell Eco-Marathon. James Benson Dudley Senior High School and Gymnasium was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. Notable alums include David Richmond, Debra Lee, Franklin McCain, Clarence Avant, Lynnae Quick, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair Jr., George Simkins, and more.
