Merrill High School (Arkansas)
Merrill High School was a public secondary school in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, one of four high schools that served black students until the public schools were integrated in 1971.
| Merrill High School | |
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| Location | |
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| Former name | Merrill Public School Merrill Institute |
| Type | Public |
| Nickname | Pirates |
History
The school was named for Joseph Merrill, a philanthropist from New Hampshire. In 1886 Merrill sold a two-story house and some adjoining land to the Pine Bluff School District, and donated money to African-Americans to remodel the house into a five room school. Part of the school later burned, and was restored by the Works Progress Administration in 1939.[1]
Athletics
Merrill won back-to-back National Championships in Lamar Allen's freshman year of 1932 and again in 1933.[2]
Notable people
- Lamar "Buddy" Allen, baseball player, football player, coach[2]
- Joseph Carter Corbin, Educator, first principal of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff from 1875-1902, after he was fired in 1902 he became principal of Merrill[3]
- Chris Mercer, the first African-American deputy state prosecutor in the South, one of the "six pioneers" who integrated the University of Arkansas Law School.[4]
- Cleo Miller, professional football player[5]
- Raye Montague, US Navy engineer, created first computer generated draft of a naval ship[6]
References
- "Joseph Merrill". Retrieved 17 November 2018.
- "Arkansas's "White" Newspaper Chose All-Star Teams for State's All-Black Schools". Retrieved 17 November 2018.
- "Joseph Carter Corbin". Retrieved 17 November 2018.
- "University of Arkansas Mourns Death of Civil Rights Activist Christopher Mercer". 26 November 2012. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
- https://www.statscrew.com/football/stats/p-millecle001
- "Raye Jean Jordan Montague". Retrieved 17 November 2018.
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