Tag: Monroe City Schools
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The Death of Wisner Colored School
I have always wondered when Wisner school closed. A few weeks ago, i was given a High School diploma from Wisner, dated 1920. I nearly cried! It was for future…
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Students Fight to Observe Black History Week in 1971
In February of 1971, six Wossman High School students, petitioned the City school board to declare Feb. 7 – 13 as Black History Week. Their petition was withdrawn. In a…
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Yearbooks Online at the Internet Archives
Another thing I have noticed is that several Ouachita Parish High School Yearbooks have been digitized here, mainly from the 1960’s – 1980’s. You will find Ouachita, River Oaks, Carroll,…
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Neville High School Under Construction – 1931
I found this picture in the 1932 Neville Monroyan.
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A Proposed New Building For the Monroe Academy
Wouldn’t this have been a gorgeous building? This was published in the Monroe News Star back in 1913. Professor Foster and the trustees of the Monroe Academy were looking to…
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Students and Faculty of the North Louisiana Industrial Institute
The bulletin for Leland University I found these lists of students in, can be seen on the Internet Archives here : https://archive.org/details/bulletin189798191011lela/page/n121/mode/2up?q=%22Monroe%2C+LA%22 . I also found them digitized on the…
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Monroe’s Ties to a Lost Black University
I am just recently hearing about a private school for African-Americans that was here in the 1890’s and the early 1900’s. To call out my own biases, I thought that…
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Lincoln School
This picture is amazing! https://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/oplib-bsc%3A44 It shows the faculty and staff of Lincoln School, which was an African American school during segregation. In 1962 or so, the Elm Street Elementary…
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George Riser – South Monroe Jr. High School’s first principal
George Riser was a beloved educator in the local school system for many years. His family has donated some of his things to our collection. This photo was found among…
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Ouachita Parish Schools and the People They Are Named For.
Do you read the Ouachita Parish Public Library’s newsletter called Cattails? If you do, you know that in the back of every issue is an article about local history, written…
Ouachita Parish History Tidbits 