Camille Acker’s Training School for Negro Girls is a collection of fictionalized accounts of the lives and
experiences of African American girls in Washington D.C. from the 1980’s to the present, based on real
communities in the city. Acker, who is herself a black Washington D.C native, offers us important, diverse,
and honest representations of life that differ from those we might imagine when thinking of Washington
D.C. In your view how do the stories that make up Training School for Negro Girls reveal DC girls and
women’s 1) experiences of power (or lack of power) in their community 2) struggles with economic
inequality 3) community pain and resilience
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