Gage Park High School

Gage Park High School is a public 4–year high school located in the Gage Park neighborhood on the south–west side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Opened in 1939, Gage Park is operated by the Chicago Public Schools district. Gage Park serves students living within three neighboring communities: Chicago Lawn, New City and West Englewood.

Gage Park High School opened in 1939. Beginning in the late–1960s, racial tensions grew between black and white students at the school. In 1965, the school's boundary lines were changed, and black students first began attending classes. This action led to sporadic violence during the period from 1965 to 1969, leading eventually to several more serious events which occurred over a 3–year period beginning in 1969. In the summer of 1966, Martin Luther King Jr led open housing marches in the Marquette Park neighborhood located just south of the school in order to protest discrimination against blacks in housing caused by illegal red-lining real estate practices. The first very serious incident at the school occurred December 1969 when six males students were arrested in a racial-motivated fight between white and black students at the school. In May 1970, a brawl erupted outside the school involving white and black students stemming from an incident during a lunch break.

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