In response, the sheriff of Tallahatchie County was summoned, and arrested 125 of them, who were briefly incarcerated at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.
The US Federal Government's Community Relations Service intervened, and eventually convinced the school board to relent.
The 125 students who had been arrested were allowed back in school, and given the opportunity to take exams that had been missed.
[4][5] In 1992 the district began a project of installing air conditioners in its classrooms, which was completed by 1993.
[6] Charleston High School held its first racially integrated prom in April 2008.