Tyler Legacy High School
school in Tyler, Texas
Tyler Legacy High School, is one of four Tyler Independent School District high school campuses in the city of Tyler, Texas, the others being Tyler High School, Tyler ISD Early College High School, and RISE Academy. The school has served the East Texas community since 1958 and was renamed Tyler Legacy High School in 2020. It is classified as a 6A school by the UIL. In 2013, the school was rated "Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency.
History
In the 1960s, when Lee's mascot was the Rebel, the school was famous for its working cannon and oversized Confederate flag. A group of seniors called the Rebel Guard tended the replica cannon at games, firing it when the Rebel football team scored a touchdown. The cannon, retired in 1986, is now the property of Brook Hill School in Bullard, Texas.
The football team entered Rose Stadium by running under the flag, reputed to be the second largest Confederate flag in the world (second only to one owned by the University of Mississippi). In January 1972, spurred by a petition from four Black students, the school board voted to get rid of the flag, the fight song ("Dixie"), and other symbols of the Confederacy.
Name change
Robert E. Lee High School was given its name upon opening in 1958 as an all-white school. After unsuccessful efforts to rename the school at the time of its racial integration in 1970 and various times after, there was a debate in the Tyler community in 2017–2018 on whether the school's name should change.
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