The most ambitious of Mississippi’s early Equalization schools, Coleman ( pictured on p. 14) served Greenville’s African American junior and senior high school students until desegregation in 1970. Overstreet and Associates, successor to the Overstreet and Town firm, drew strong horizontal lines in the contrast of the brick veneer first story against the white concrete-finished second story, the continuous bands of fenestration, windows with brise soleil at each end of the facade, and a concrete stringcourse that flows into a dramatic cantilevered porte-cochere. While the original steel awning windows have been replaced, the impression of lightness conveyed by the window walls remains. Initially, the concrete-frame school contained twenty-two classrooms, an auditorium, a lunchroom, a library, and a clinic. In 1958, a rear wing added twelve more classrooms, a gymnasium, and vocational shops.