Industrial High School (West Palm Beach, Florida)

Industrial High School is a former high school located at 800 11th St., West Palm Beach, Florida. The building is currently used by U. B. Kinsey/Palmview Elementary School. It opened in 1914 as the first high school for African Americans in Palm Beach County; the last class graduated in 1950, when a new school for African Americans, Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School, opened.[1] It was the "center of attention" for the black community "that straddled Tamarind Avenue."[2] (See Northwest Historic District.)

References
  1. Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources (2007). Florida Black Heritage Trail. p. 55.
  2. Musgrave, Jane (June 12, 2010). "Industrial High School graduates gather for 65th reunion". Palm Beach Post.
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