West End in Northwest Washington in Washington, District of Columbia — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Thaddeus Stevens

1792-1868

— Thaddeus Stevens School —

Thaddeus Stevens Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Brandon D Cross, August 15, 2025

1. Thaddeus Stevens Marker

Inscription. “… a humble tribute of grateful remembrance to the late Thaddeus Stevens … the earnest champion of free and equal school privileges for all classes and conditions…” —the Board of Trustees of Colored Schools of Washington and Georgetown in honor of Thaddeus Stevens

Erected 2020 by Thaddeus Stevens School.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Abolition & Underground RR • African Americans • Civil Rights. A significant historical year for this entry is 1864.

Location. 38° 54.203′ N, 77° 2.812′ W. Marker is in Northwest Washington in Washington, District of Columbia. It is in West End. It is on 21st Street Northwest just west of L Street NW, on the right when traveling south. It is at the Thaddeus Stevens School, to the right of the buildings, facing the sidewalk. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1050 21st St NW, Washington DC 20036, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the Washington Metropolitan Area.

It is also in the American Northeast,

in the Upper South,

in the Mid-Atlantic,

in the Tidewater,

and in the Chesapeake Bay Region.

Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: The Stevens School Augmented Reality Exhibit at 2100 L Street (within shouting distance of this marker); Walter E. Washington Memorial Arch (about 600 feet away, measured in a direct line); Cleveland Abbe House (about 800 feet away); Home of James Monroe (about 800 feet away); Lieutenant General George Washington

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(approx. 0.2 miles away); George Washington (approx. 0.2 miles away); Marquis de Lafayette Hall (approx. 0.2 miles away); Growing here (approx. 0.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Northwest Washington.

More about this marker. This piece of artwork is part of a feature wall commemorating Thaddeus Stevens was included in the District of Columbia Public Schools bid to renovate the Thaddeus Stevens School building that was undertaken in 2019-2020 by Akridge and Argos Group, and Martinez & Johnson. Publicly available records do not name the artist that created it.

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1. Who was Thaddeus Stevens?. Excerpt:

Thaddeus Stevens, the most powerful congressman during and after the Civil War, changed the fabric of the United States government, helping to push it towards the promise of equality for all. Immortalized in the movie Lincoln, by Steven Spielberg, Stevens was a fearless champion of freedom and equality. During his lifetime, Stevens’s fame rivaled that of Abraham Lincoln and when he died in 1868, his body lay in the Capitol Rotunda — an honor previously given only
Photographed by Brandon D Cross, August 15, 2025

2. Thaddeus Stevens Marker
to Lincoln and Sen. Henry Clay. 20,000 people attended Stevens’s funeral in Lancaster, PA. He was the Father of the 14th Amendment, the single most important amendment to the Constitution, and Savior of Public Education in Pennsylvania. He also helped pressure Lincoln into freeing the slaves, developed Reconstruction policies, spearheaded the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, and participated in the Underground Railroad.

(Submitted on August 17, 2025, by Brandon D Cross of Flagler Beach, Florida.)

2. Thaddeus Stevens. Excerpt:

After the war Stevens emerged as one of the most militant of the Radical Republicans, consistently striving for justice for the black masses. Alert to the return to power of traditional white Southern leadership, he argued that the seceded states were in the condition of “conquered provinces” to which restraints of the Constitution did not apply.

(Submitted on August 17, 2025, by Brandon D Cross of Flagler Beach, Florida.)

3. Wikipedia entry for Thaddeus Stevens School. Excerpts:

With a 92% increase of freed slaves between 1840 and 1860, a large population of this demographic migrated to wards 1 and 2 of Washington, DC. This is proved by the census data of the wards of Washington, DC from 1860. This influx of freed slaves to the
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3. Thaddeus Stevens
Foggy Bottom neighborhood caused apparent demand for a public school. The Stevens School was erected in 1868 because the city needed a public colored school and the most feasible place to put it was on square 73 which was accessible by both wards 1 and 2. ...

A pioneering school for African-Americans, it was named for Thaddeus Stevens, the Radical Republican abolitionist congressman from Pennsylvania. The Preparatory High School for Negro Youth was housed in the building after it was founded in 1871 and later moved becoming the M Street High School and ultimately Dunbar High School. ...

In January 1977 President of the United States Jimmy Carter enrolled his daughter Amy Carter at Stevens. Jack Moore of the Associated Press wrote that this made the school “one of the most famous schools in America seemingly overnight.”

(Submitted on September 1, 2025.)

Stevens School image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Brandon D Cross, August 15, 2025

4. Stevens School

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