Wallace M. Quinn High School
[1] The school was closed in 1967 under the leadership of Willie Speed, who later became the first Black school board chairman in the county.[2] The school was built in the late 1940s on land donated by Wallace Quinn.[3] While the two white high schools in the district got new textbooks and taught algebra and science classes, Quinn received second-hand textbooks and was told that Black children could only handle very basic material.Under the tutelage of Charlie Watson, the school reported one curriculum to the school district, while teaching a more advanced curriculum outside the eye of White administrators.This Florida school-related article is a stub.