Indiana’s Former All-Black School May Become College Academy
INDIANAPOLIS
School officials want to turn the city’s first all-Black high school, Crispus Attucks, from a middle school into a college prep academy.
Crispus Attucks opened in the 1920s amid a statewide segregation movement. The school earned a national reputation for academics and produced a number of local educators, business and professional leaders, as well as three state basketball titles in the 1950s.
A federal court ordered the school desegregated in 1971, and by 1986, the high school was changed to a junior high.
Indianapolis Public Schools Superintendent Eugene White recently said he wants to expand Attucks, along with Shortridge, from middle schools with grades six to eight to college prep academies for sixth- through 12th-graders.
