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.

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.

Athletics

Merrill won back-to-back National Championships in Lamar Allen's freshman year of 1932 and again in 1933.

Notable people