| Designed by the architectural firm of Spain & Biggers, Lanier High School was begun in 1951 and completed in 1954 as an Equalization-era segregated public high school for African American students. This is the second location of Lanier High School, which was originally located in the Midtown neighborhood across the railroad tracks in a building constructed in 1925. Lanier student partipated in the Jackson Movement in 1963, staging a walkout in protest of the attack on Tougaloo students at the Woolworth sit-in on May 27, 1963. Around 450 students were arrested and held in a temporary prison at the state fairgrounds. The building was designated a Mississippi Landmark on 8 November 2007, and it was listed on the National Register on 10 September 2014. The school is included in "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (p. 273, JM69). |