Hudson's building was converted to Westside Junior High School, was renamed Selma Middle CHAT Academy and, in 2012, became known as R.B.

In 1990, a group of students, led by Rose Sanders, a local activist and the wife of the local state senator, led protests at the high school against this policy and the dismissal of the system's first black superintendent, Norward Roussell.

[4][5] During the 1989–1990 academic year an incident occurred on school grounds that resulted in one student being shot.

In response, the then governor Guy Hunt ordered the National Guard and state troopers to the high school.

This led to increasing segregation in the school system, as of April 2011, Selma High had only five white students and enrollment had shrunk from approximately 1,500 to below 1,000.