Monument highlights all-black high school’s significance, spirit

PAVING THE WAY: Former Langston Negro Junior-Senior High School teachers Charles Butler, of Richardson, Texas, left, Alice Harris, of Helena-West Helena, Dorothy Lockhart Logan, of Hot Springs, Hot Springs School District Joyce Craft, and former Langston Negro Junior-Senior High School teachers Elizabeth Jackson, of Hot Springs, and Helen Collins Rose-Hill, of Hampton, Va., unveil a monument memorializing the all-black high school at the Langston Aerospace and Environmental Studies Magnet School on Saturday.

When Minnie Lenox left Langston Negro Junior-Senior High School to join the first integrated class at Hot Springs High School in 1968, she left behind the sense of camaraderie and spirit she once felt at her old school.

But Lenox and other former students and staff from the all-black school revived their old bulldog pride when they returned to the site of the one-time school, now Langston Aerospace and Environmental Studies Magnet School, 120 Chestnut St., to dedicate a monument in honor of the institution which served only African-American students in the area from 1903 to 1968, ...

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July, 2009