Abbeville Colored School

The Abbeville Colored School was built in 1950 as part of Mississippi's school equalization program, in which to forestall integration, new schools were built for Black students. Half of the funding for the original, four- classroom building was raised by the local Black community. In 1960, Gordon Elementary School was constructed for grades one through six, while a third building, for grades nine through twelve, was erected in the early 1960s. Following integration. Abbeville's Black students were bused to former all-White schools. . This historical marker was erected in 2022 by Mississippi Department of Archives and History. It is Near Abbeville in Lafayette County Mississippi