Editing Upper Marlboro, Maryland (section)

==== African-American schools ====
In the era of [[Jim Crow laws]] and legalized racial segregation of schools, before the mid-20th century [[Civil Rights Movement]], white and black students attended separate schools. Beginning around 1868 the Upper Marlboro area had a school for African-American children. In the Upper Marlboro area, white students attended [[Upper Marlboro High School]] after it was built in 1921.<ref name="MeyerEugeneLOwn">{{cite news |author=Meyer, Eugene L. |date=September 28, 2000 |title=Douglass High: A School of Their Own |newspaper=[[Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/09/28/douglass-high-a-school-of-their-own/66aa9055-3006-47d4-8c3e-b0ee8d1fcc96/?noredirect=on |access-date=September 6, 2018}}</ref> Prior to 1923 area black high school students traveled to [[Baltimore]] or [[Washington, D.C.]], to go to high school.<ref name="DouglassHighHist">"[https://web.archive.org/web/20111012052913/http://www1.pgcps.org/douglass/index.aspx?id=35680 About Us > The History of Frederick Douglass High School]." [[Frederick Douglass High School (Prince George's County, Maryland)|Frederick Douglass High School]]. October 12, 2011. Retrieved on September 6, 2018.</ref> From 1923 to 1935, Black students attended [[Marlboro Colored High School]] in Upper Marboro.<ref name="MeyerEugeneLOwn" /> After Marlboro Colored High School closed in 1935, and [[Frederick Douglass High School (Prince George's County, Maryland)|Frederick Douglass High School]] was opened on a new campus.<ref name="MeyerEugeneLOwn" />