While the bricks were transported to the site and cleaned, several attempts to build the high school were thwarted.
Using the bricks from the demolished auditorium, Hughes designed a new building, and IHS finally opened in 1924.
These included Bay, Lake City, Paragould, Biggers, Pocahantas, Walnut Ridge, Black Rock, Imboden, Weiner, Trumann, and various others.
[citation needed] In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas declared laws maintaining separate public schools for Black and White children to be unconstitutional.
Commander of U.S. Army Forces at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE).