1951–1954, Spain and Biggers. 833 Maple St.
Jackson’s first high school for African Americans moved from its 1926 location at 126 E. Ash Street to this International Style building, constructed in the same Equalization-era project as the white high schools Provine (2400 Robinson Road) and Murrah (1400 Murrah Drive). A red brick auditorium block anchors a long, two-story tan brick classroom wing with banked windows, and an uptilted canopy shelters the main entrance. In May 1963, Lanier students staged a walkout to protest the brutal treatment of Tougaloo College students at the Woolworth lunch counter sit-in, leading to beatings and arrests.