Moor High School Explained

Moor High School
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City:Oktoc
State:Mississippi
Country:United States
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Coordinates:33.3331°N -88.7128°W
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Type:Public, segregated
Opened:1960[1]
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Closed:2002
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Superintendent:Walter Conley
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Moor High School was a historically black, public secondary school in Starkville, Mississippi. The school had roots in the Pleasant Grove Community School. In 2002, Moor was closed, then consolidated and merged with Alexander, another historically black high school in Starkville, Mississippi. The new school was housed at the Moor High location. In 2015 the state caused the Oktibbeha County School District to merge with the Starkville School District, and Moor was shuttered as a high school. The school district continued to use it for some time.[2] [3]

History

Moor High was founded in 1960 as a segregated all-black school. In 1997 and 1998, proposals were made to reorganize the district, merging the two schools west of Starkville, Maben and Sturgis, into the Starkville Schools, while creating a new school district for the mostly Black schools (Alexander and Moor) on the east side of Starkville.[4] After a fire burned the school in 2002, the school was merged with Alexander High school[5] and was renamed East Oktibbeha County School.[6] The Mississippi Legislature forced the Oktibbeha County School District to merge with the Starkville School District to become the Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District.[7] At that time, East Oktibbeha County School closed and all students were transferred to Starkville High School.[8]

As of 2016, the site was abandoned.[9]

In 2023, the school was re-purposed into a unique wedding venue and boutique motel, The Hill and Moor and The Tangerine Motel.[10] [11]

Notable alumni

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Black alumni of Starkville's Moor High School fight to preserve its property, heritage . Jackson Advocate . Jackson Advocate News . 26 December 2023 . 28 June 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230128095644/https://jacksonadvocateonline.com/black-alumni-of-starkvilles-moor-high-school-fight-to-preserve-its-property-heritage/ . January 28, 2023.
  2. News: Jones . Tyler B . Manufacturer, educational group vie for control over 16th section land . 26 December 2023 . Dispatch . June 22, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231226234449/https://cdispatch.com/news/manufacturer-educational-group-vie-for-control-over-16th-section-land/?lp_txn_id=249976 . December 26, 2023 . if this school is ever forced to take in white students, take my name off it.
  3. News: McBride . Earnest . Alumni of B. L. Moor High in Oktibbeha County plan 55-year commemoration on June 17 . 27 December 2023 . May 22, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230528190328/https://jacksonadvocateonline.com/alumni-of-b-l-moor-high-in-oktibbeha-county-plan-55-year-commemoration-on-june-17/ . May 28, 2023.
  4. Web site: Clarion-Ledger 30 Aug 1998, page Page 6 .
  5. News: McLane . Jeff . Myself and Mississippi Before the Eagles' A.J. Brown went 'ba-boom' in the NFL, his light flickered in Starkville. . 27 December 2023 . Philadelphia Inquirer . September 5, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231030125351/https://www.inquirer.com/eagles/inq2/eagles-aj-brown-bio-starkville-mississippi-20230905.html . October 30, 2023.
  6. News: Wesley . Charles . Historical documents and artifacts from B. L. Moor High School and other county schools are donated to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History . 26 December 2023 . Starkville Daily News . October 23, 2023.
  7. "The Plan for Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District ." Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District. January 20, 2015. Retrieved on July 3, 2017.
  8. https://www.ahsfhs.org/mississippi/Teams/teampage.asp?year=1996&Team=East%20Oktibbeha%20County
  9. News: Carskadon . James . Push renewed to make use of former school buildings . 21 January 2019 . Starkville Daily News . 27 May 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190121232846/https://www.starkvilledailynews.com/content/push-renewed-make-use-former-school-buildings . 21 January 2019 . dead .
  10. Web site: McLaughlin . Grant . 2023-02-02 . Goings on with Grant: From lessons to lodgings: Former Crawford school transformed to event space, motel . 2023-02-16 . The Dispatch . en-US.
  11. Web site: Tangerine Hotel being built in rural Oktibbeha County . 6 September 2022 .
  12. Web site: Rice's football career traced to Oktibbeha County . 2017-11-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140607001523/http://www.starkvilledailynews.com/content/rices-football-career-traced-oktibbeha-county . 2014-06-07 . dead .

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