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C.M. Washington High School

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The final school building received its dedication on December 8, 1950. It served grades 1–12. Leola A. Washington was the initial principal of the school's elementary division and Professor Robert M. Harris was the initial principal of the high school division.
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In 2008 members of the C.M. Washington alumni association proposed renaming South Thibodaux Elementary after Cordelia Matthews Washington. Allen Chapel AME Church pastor Rev. Nelson Dan Taylor Sr., also proposed this renaming in 2013.
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In 1968 the school building was re-purposed as South Thibodaux Elementary School due to racial integration. Black students moved to previously all-white high schools:
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established the Negro Corporation School in the early 1900s. She died in 1937, and Washington High School was renamed in her honor circa 1942.
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in Lafourche Parish for black people, and it had the first high school program for black people in Thibodaux.
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Historically segregated African-American schools in Louisiana
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school for black people
Thibodaux
Louisiana
Lafourche Parish Public Schools
K-12 school
Thibodaux High School
Central Lafourche High School
South Lafourche High School



"Alumni group seeks to change school's name"
Houma Today
See image of the historic plaque
See version at
The Daily Comet



"Pastor wants Thibodaux school again renamed after its founder"
Houma Today
See version at
The Daily Comet
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Thibodaux, Louisiana
Thibodaux massacre
Lafourche Parish PS
Thibodaux HS

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