[2] The Dollarway district began construction of a high school for black students in 1954, and it opened in 1955.
[3] National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) member William Dove opposed the school as he believed it would frustrate the process of having black and white students attend the same schools and that the Dollarway district would not attempt to get Townsend Park High accredited.
[1] In 1959 the court case Dove v. Parham[6] ruled that three negro students had the right to attend Dollarway High School.
Segregationists including Jim Johnson and Amis Guthridge incited a riot and prevented this from happening for some period of time.
[7] By 1962, Townsend Park High had one microscope in the biology laboratory, and the school only had paper typing keyboards.