Central High School (Galveston, Texas)
Lorraine Smith Tigner, quoted in the Galveston County Daily News, stated that Central, established as the Central School in 1885, was the first Texas school for black people.[1] In 1949 the cafeteria, located in the school's basement, was so small that the seating for students eating their meals was in the first floor gymnasium.There was no proper playground since the lot designated for it was filled with three frame shacks; students instead used an area alley for recreation.Bill Cherry of The Galveston County Daily News stated that while, by 1949, all GISD facilities were under-maintained, Central High School was the one that "blatantly showed" the deepest "lack of respect of its pupils’ human dignity".[2] The school offered cooking, home economics, sewing, and woodwork classes.