The final all-Black high school in the city, L.C. Anderson, is being recognized with a historical marker and a new high school adjacent to the old location.
U.S. House Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) said the occasion was long overdue.
“Joyous celebration at L.C. Anderson H.S. Historical Marker Dedication Ceremony,” he tweeted. “While this segregated high school arose out of decades of wrong, it overcame so much and accomplished so much good; its Yellowjacket students helped to make Austin a better place for all of us.”
This year marks the 50th anniversary that the high school has been closed, according to the news station KVUE.
A modernized school is being built on the old site, and the school will be called Eastside Early College High School, according to the news station.
A groundbreaking ceremony for the new place occurred in 2019, with the projected cost, at the time, approximately $80 million.
Pamela Nesby McCullough, a 1966 graduate of Anderson, told the crowd gathered at the ceremony that she hopes the school will inspire students to forge their own legacy, according to Austin’s NPR station KUT.
“It is our hope you feel the pride, the excellence, the honor and the integrity that the classes of 1907 through 1971 of the original L.C. Anderson High School felt as students,” she said.
