Pomonkey Junior-Senior High School was an all-black high school located in

Indian Head, Maryland Indian Head is a town in Charles County, Maryland, United States. The population was 3,894 at the 2020 U.S. Census. It has been the site of a naval base specializing in gun and rocket propellants since 1890. Production of nitrocellulose and smok ...

. From 1966 to 1969, it began to be integrated with the all white schools, Henry E. Lackey High School and

La Plata High School La Plata High School is part of the Charles County Public Schools and is located in La Plata, Maryland, United States. The current school was built in 1979. Before that, it was in the building (built in 1964) which now holds Milton M. Somers Mid ...

. The old Pomonkey High School building was then re-opened as a public middle school in 1970, it was rededicated in 1970 as

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