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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Former nameMerrill Public School
Merrill Institute
TypePublic
NicknamePirates

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

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