Lanier Junior Senior High School, formerly W. H. Lanier High School, is a public middle and high school located in
Jackson
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,
Mississippi
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, United States. It is part of the
Jackson Public School District. The current
principal is Valerie Bradley. There were a total of 872 students enrolled in Lanier High, then only a high school, during the 2006–2007 school year. The gender makeup of the district was 52% female and 48% male. The racial makeup of the school is 100% African American.
History
Lanier was founded in 1925 as a junior and senior high school. It was named after
William Henry Lanier (1855–1929), who was superintendent of black schools in Jackson from 1912 until his death.
Due to
segregation Segregation may refer to:
Separation of people
* Geographical segregation, rates of two or more populations which are not homogenous throughout a defined space
* School segregation
* Housing segregation
* Racial segregation, separation of human ...
, Lanier was
reserved for black students until 1969,
when Jackson schools were integrated by law.
In 2023, Brinkley Middle consolidated into Lanier High.
Feeder pattern
The following schools fed into Lanier High School as of 2007.
*Middle schools
**Brinkley Middle School
*Elementary schools
**Dawson Elementary School
**Galloway Elementary School
**Johnson Elementary School
**Smith Elementary School
**Walton Elementary School
Notable alumni
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Lerone Bennett Jr., author and social historian
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Monta Ellis
Monta Jerome Ellis ( ; born October 26, 1985) is an American former professional basketball player. Ellis attended Lanier High School (Jackson, Mississippi), Lanier High School in Jackson, Mississippi, where he was a McDonald's All-American Game, ...
, former
NBA
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player
*
Daryl Jones (born 1955), (Democratic politician) in
Miami, Florida
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Arvesta Kelly,
ABA basketball player
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Gilbert Mason, family physician, civil rights leader, and author
[https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/dr-gilbert-r-mason-sr-39#:~:text=Mason%2C%20Sr.%2C%20“wade,Tennessee%20State%20University%20in%201949.]
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Richard Wright, renowned
African-American author; attended Lanier but dropped out to earn money for his family
[Rayson, Ann. "Richard Wright's Life.]
Modern American Poetry.
Nelson, Cary and Brinkman, Bartholomew, eds. Department of English, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 2001.
References
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Public high schools in Mississippi
Public middle schools in Mississippi
Schools in Jackson, Mississippi