West Bolivar High School
high school in Rosedale, Bolivar County, Mississippi
West Bolivar High School is a senior high school in Rosedale, Mississippi, and a part of the West Bolivar Consolidated School District (formerly the West Bolivar School District).
In addition to Rosedale it serves Gunnison, Pace, and Symonds, and from 1986 to 2000 it served high school-aged residents of Benoit and Scott. It was formerly known as Rosedale Consolidated School.
History
The school, previously known as the Rosedale Consolidated School, opened in 1921. It was founded during the Jim Crow era, and was a segregated white school. In the Lum v. Rice case a Chinese student, Martha Lum, unsuccessfully tried to enroll in classes at Rosedale Consolidated in the 1920s. The school became racially integrated in 1970.
Beginning in 1986 Benoit School District students at the high school level did not attend Ray Brooks School (previously Nugent Center School, a.k.a. Benoit High School), which continued to serve prior grades, but instead West Bolivar High.
The public source identifies “West Bolivar High School” as high school in Rosedale, Bolivar County, Mississippi. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around West, Bolivar and High.
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