Built in 1934 with funding from the Rosenwald Fund, it was the only high school serving African Americans in a four-county region of southern Arkansas until 1940.

Its original block is a rectangular brick structure with a gable-on-hip roof; a flat-roof addition was made to the rear in 1954.

The building house grades 6-12 of African Americans until 1970, when the city's schools were integrated.

[2] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

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