Founded in 1844, Western High School in Baltimore is one of the only all-girls public schools in the United States.
For Black History Month, WJZ sat down with nine women who were among the first to integrate the all-girls school.
The archive room
Monique Cox is the president of the Western High School Foundation and a 1993 graduate of the school. Part of her role is to organize and preserve the archive room.
It is a room tucked away inside the school, and it is filled with over 180 years of artifacts like shoes, dresses, photos, letters and yearbooks…