The Florida Interscholastic Athletics Association was, during segregation, the organization of the athletic programs black high schools in Florida. It divided schools into classes to match teams from similar schools, and set up game schedules. It existed from 1932 — earlier than that there were too few black high schools — to 1968, when Florida schools integrated.
Member schools included:
* Bates Avenue, Eustis
* Belleview Senior High, Belleview
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Blanche Ely High School
Blanche Ely High School is a high school located in Pompano Beach, Broward County, Florida. The school is named for Blanche Ely, former principal and social activist.
In addition to Pompano Beach, Ely serves a portion of Deerfield Beach and ...
, Pompano Beach
* Booker T. Washington High School, Inverness
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Booker T. Washington High School, Miami
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Booker T. Washington High School, Pensacola
* Campbell Street High School, Daytona Beach
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Carver High School, Miami
* Carver Heights High School, Leesburg
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Carver-Hill School, Crestview
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Chamberlain High School
George D. Chamberlain High School is a public high school in Tampa, Florida, United States. It was opened in 1956 on North Boulevard (on the corner of Busch Boulevard). The school is named in honor of George D. Chamberlain, who served for several ...
, Tampa
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Crispus Attucks
Crispus Attucks ( – March 5, 1770) was an American whaler, sailor, and stevedore of African and Native American descent, commonly regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre and thus the first American killed in the Amer ...
High School, Hollywood
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Dillard High School
Dillard High School is a historic public middle and high school located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The school was established in 1907 as Colored School 11 and was later named for black-education advocate James H. Dillard. It is a part of Broward ...
, Ft. Lauderdale
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Gibbs High School, St. Petersburg
* Matthew Gilbert High School, Jacksonville
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Howard High School Howard High School may refer to:
* David T. Howard High School, a former high school in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
* Howard High School of Technology
Howard High School of Technology is a vocational-technical high school in Wilmington, Delaware and is ...
, Ocala
* Howard High School, Orlando
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Jones High School, Orlando
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Middleton High School, Tampa
* Kennedy High School, Riviera Beach
* Lake County Training School, Lake County
* Lincoln Park High School, Clermont
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Lincoln High School, Tallahassee
* Mays High School, Miami
* Murry High School, St. Augustine
* Northwestern High School, Miami
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William M. Raines High School ,Jacksonville
* Rochelle High School, Lakeland
* Roosevelt High School, West Palm Beach
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Shadeville High School, Crawfordville
* Tivoli High School, DeFuniak Springs
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Union Academy, Bartow
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Tampa Bay Times
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African-American history of Florida
Defunct sports leagues in the United States
High school sports conferences and leagues in the United States