Tag: North Louisiana Industrial High School
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Monroe Academy Graduating Class of 1914
While going through our photo archives, I found this little gem I didn’t know we had. It shows a graduating class of the Monroe Academy (1000 Texas Avenue), which I…
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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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Wisner Colored High School
Wisner Colored High School was one of the earliest African-American high schools in Ouachita Parish. It was founded by the Barrington family right after the Civil War. The Excellence Academy…
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African-American Education in Ouachita Parish Near the Turn of the Century
This is a tiny little key hole glimpse into the history of education in the African-American community of Monroe. It talks about a trade school that had been started by…
Ouachita Parish History Tidbits 