[1] It opened in 1880 and was the first high school for African Americans in Georgia.
[3] The school's alumni include Silas X. Floyd and Nathan W. Collier, the first president of Florida Normal and Technical Institute (predecessor of Florida Memorial University) from 1896 until 1941.
The board asserted that African American high school students in Augusta could attend Haines Industrial School, Walker Baptist Institute, or Payne Institute (Augusta, Georgia).
[4] June Patton wrote about the struggle to save the high school.
This school-related article concerning the U.S. state of Georgia is a stub.