Taylor County High School (Georgia) Explained

Taylor County High School is a public high school in Butler, Georgia, and the only public high school in the rural county. It is in the Taylor County School District.[1] Vikings are the school mascot and the school colors are blue, gold, and white.[2]

It was preceded by Butler Female College and Male Institute.

In 1955 Mauk School was consolidated into Taylor High School. The old school building turned community center is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[3] Reynolds High School in Reynolds, Georgia was consolidated into it in the 1960s.[4]

Byrd v. United States was described as a case of six "Negro" students being assigned, against their wishes, to a school with a white student body.[5] In 1969, the school district was put under court jurisdiction. The student body of schools in recent decades has been roughly evenly split between whites and blacks.[6]

From 1967-1972 the Lady Vikings basketball team never lost a game. The team won 132 games and five state championships.[7]

The school's first integrated prom was held in 2003.[8] [9]

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/georgia/districts/taylor-county/taylor-county-high-school-6088
  2. Web site: Taylor County (Butler, GA) High School Sports - Football, Basketball, Baseball, Softball, Volleyball, and more. www.maxpreps.com.
  3. https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/6d9c9971-034c-4ed1-8220-d38ac797809c
  4. Web site: [Photograph of Reynolds High School, Reynolds, Taylor County, Georgia] - Digital Library of Georgia]. dlg.usg.edu.
  5. Web site: Guidelines for School Desegregation: Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on Civil Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, Second Session. United States Congress House Committee on the Judiciary Special Subcommittee on Civil. Rights. December 25, 1966. U.S. Government Printing Office. Google Books.
  6. https://www.usccr.gov/files/pubs/docs/GADESG-FULL.pdf
  7. Web site: There Was Once a Team: The story of the Taylor County Lady Vikings. January 3, 2022.
  8. Web site: Georgia Town Holds First Integrated Prom. A. B. C.. News. ABC News.
  9. Web site: Ga. county's last trace of segregation comes to end on students' prom night. May 5, 2002.

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