Georgia Interscholastic Association

The Big 7 Conference included large high schools for African American students in Georgia. The GIA was an expansion of this league that grew to include county high schools around the state.[9] High schools for African Americans from 147 of Georgia's 159 counties came to be included in the league.

Walt Frazier, Wyomia Tyus, Otis Sistrunk, Monk Johnson, Rayfield Wright.[6] Don Adams, Willie Seay, and Edith McGuire emerged from the league.[10][11][12] Seay went on to star on Albany State University's track team and carried the Olympic torch before the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.[12] Becky Taylor who works at the Tifton Gazette has been researching the league for years.[6] Herb White, nicknamed the Elevator from Decatur, worked on the documentary film about the league. A high school basketball, star he went on to play for the Atlanta Hawks.[7]

The GIS grew to include high schools for African American students from 147 of Georgia's 159 counties.[6] After the film was broadcast the filmmakers and some of those featured in the film participated in a panel discussion moderated by Ann Kimbrough.[10]

• Henry McNeal Turner High School in northwest Atlanta
• Washington High School in southwest Atlanta
• South Fulton High School in East Point, Georgia
• Ballard-Hudson High School in Macon[13]
• Alfred E. Beach High School in Savannah
• David T. Howard High School in Northeast Atlanta
• Carver High School in Southeast Atlanta
• South Fulton High School in East Point
• Josey High School in Augusta
• Central High School in Springfield
• Atkinson County Training High School in Pearson
• Appling High School in Macon
• Eva Thomas High School in College Park
• Harrison High School in West Point
• Risley High School in Brunswick
• Calhoun High School
• Carver High School in Dawson[14]
• Lee Street High School in Blackshear
• Hutto High School in Bainbridge
• Macon County Training High School in Montezuma
• Holsey-Cobb Institute in Cordele
• Thomaston Training School in Wayne County
• Training School in Jesup
• Hill High School in LaFayette
• Edison Negro High School
• Alma Consolidated High School
• Fairmont High School in Griffin
• Richland High & Industrial
• Hunt High School in Fort Valley
• Haralson County Consolidated High School in Waco
• Monitor High School in Fitzgerald
• Harrison High School in West Point
• South Fulton High School in East Point
• Central High School in McRae
• George W. Drake High School in Thomaston
• R. L. Cousins High School in Douglasville
• Bethune High School in Folkston
• West End School in Hogansville
• Ralph Bunche High School in Canton
• St. Pius X High School in Savannah
• Eureka School[15]
• Liberty County High School
• Bailey-Johnson School in Alpharetta
• Calhoun Crawford County Training School in Roberta
• Whitman Street High School in Toccoa
• Stephens High School in Calhoun
• Lucy Craft Laney High School in Augusta, Georgia
• Luther Judson Price High School in southeast Atlanta[16]
• Sophronia Tompkins High School (became Woodville-Tompkins)
• Houston High School, Indians[17]
• Wilson High School[17]
• William H. Spencer High School in Columbus[16]
• Ralph Bunche High School[16]
• Dasher High School[16]
• Pinevale High School in Valdosta,[16] the Fighting Tigers[18]
• Boggs Academy,[16] a Presbyterian parochial school
• Elm Street High School,[16] now Rockmart Middle School[19]
• Cedar Hill High School[16] in Cedartown, Georgia
• William Bryant High School in Moultrie,[20][16] formerly Moultrie High School for Negro Youth[21] It became a junior high school after integration[22]
• Lemon Street High School of Marietta, the Hornets[20]
• Elder High School[23] in Sandersville, Georgia
• Maggie Califf High School in Gray, Georgia[24]
• Peabody High School in Eastman, Georgia[24]