The building that once housed Douglass School, located at 465 Price Road, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Fayette County in 1998.

Inspired by the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling, Helen Cary Caise age 16, between her sophomore and junior years of high school in 1955, enrolled in a summer course in U.S. History at Lafayette High School.

"[10] She faced no direct attacks (her white classmates, she said, generally "just ignored me" and she befriended one girl, Barbara Levy), but she was escorted to class by uncles and her grandfather who feared for her safety.

Meanwhile, her family received threatening phone calls and her father's concrete business was essentially lost due to the repercussions from white supremacists.

[13] She graduated from Douglass High school and went on to earn a teaching degree at Kentucky State University.