This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EJB.2ACE/570 Message Board Post: Hi, I am very curious about the emails concerning Liddell High School. For some reason or other, my understanding was that my grandmother (Mrs. Lucille Millsaps Green) was very involved with the idea of building schools for the black children after she came back from Europe. She noted that there was very little education available for the black children in Jefferson County and was appalled by the conditions that existed at that time. I do not know to what extent she was involved and wish I knew more. But the end result was Liddell HIgh School (or at least a new facility for such school). When I went to 8th grade in Jefferson County (in 1963 because I remember I was in the gym playing basketball when President Kennedy was shot), I attended what was then known as Jefferson High School. This school was located on the road between Fayette and Lorman at the edge of the Fayette City limits. Liddell High School was built I believe before the 1960s and was a viable school during the time I attended Jefferson High School as I remember there was the white high school (Jefferson County High School) and then there was Liddell, the black high school. I am quite sure of this. I remember seeing it several times but can't recollect where exactly it was located. It was quite large and modern for the times (almost as large as the white high school if not as large) since education for blacks at that time was quite limited. The last time I saw it, it was abandoned and vandalized since integration had hit Mississippi and the black students eventually moved over to what what! was then Jefferson High School. Whether the school which I remember being Liddell High School is still standing, I have no information, but I don't believe it was ever Jefferson High School. I too would like more information. I'm sure there must be some relatively "old timers" of us still out there which would have this information. Sincerely, Rebecca Hynum