History of Louisiana

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Louisiana, being a southern state did not have very many public high schools for African Americans to attend. In the Scotlandville community there has always been both public and private elementary schools. In the 1950’s there was only one available high school for people of color and that was McKinley High School. This lasted up until 1960 when Scotlandville Magnet High School was officially founded. During a meeting in New Orleans in 1879 members of the Louisiana State Constitutional convention chose to support the proposal of four black delegates. These delegates were P.B.S. Pinchback, T.T. Allain, T.B. Stamps, and Henry Demas. They wanted to create a higher institute of learning for the African American population. In another assembly Allain introduced another bill, which called for the ‘implementation’ of Act 231. This called for an institute to come about to charter a school known as Southern University in April 1880. After the signature of the current Governor, Nichols, a twelve member Board of Trustees were established along with a faculty of “Arts and Letters.” The faculty were highly educated in every field and only gave degrees to those who deemed themselves worthy and were well deserving; the first students entered in March of year 1881. In 1910 Dr. Joseph Samuel Clark, President of Baton Rouge College and the Louisiana Colored Teachers Associations, formed a committee, which requested to Governor J.Y. Sanders that a training school for aspiring teachers be located in a more rural area of Louisiana. The Governor declined the proposal but did favor the idea of the removal of Southern University from the city of New Orleans. The future is yet to come, but past is what we learn from. The present is what we... ... middle of paper ... ... then new requirements. Students were required to have a minimum of a 2.5 to be enrolled and maintain and 3.0 similar to the requirements today. They also remodeled the new magnet school. The student body ratio for the four black to white was an 80 to 20 ratio. Setting the limit on blacks enrolling until there were more white to enroll. In 1983 Scotlandville Magnet has decided they will have a major increase in white they would start a new program. This is not just a school but a community. A community where the neighbors all came together. They all believed in struggling together, and making it together. This community has been through the worse struggle ever just to become the community it is today. It's rich and illustrious past should never go unnoticed. We should never forget our past. Scotlandville's struggle to better the black community is very significant.

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