The 1919 building was destroyed by fire in 1943. The new 1949 school  building served as the only high school for Blacks in Randolph County Alabama until the late 1950s when another high school for Blacks was built at Wedowee, the county seat. It closed by order of the the United States Federal District Court for the Middle District of Alabama in 1970, 16 years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled separate-but-equal education unconstitutional in Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954.