Year Minimum Foundation building program completed 1955 and 1957. Cordele city and Crisp County were separate school systems when construction began on their projects. A.S. Clark was built by the city, with a new Crisp County Training elementary built by the county.

Year of total integration 1970.

Known high schools A.S. Clark (Cordele) Gillespie-Selden (Cordele) Holsey-Cobb (Cordele) Gillespie-Selden and Holsey-Cobb were private schools. Did Crisp County or Cordele city have an actual public African American school prior to A.S. Clark's completion in 1955? It's hard to say. The statistics released by the Georgia Department of Education in its Annual Reports (actually released every two years) with a high school in Cordele city and in Crisp County. Both were private schools, but it seems they served as de facto public high schools. Their status is equally hazily defined in a July 31, 1952 Cordele Dispatch article about registration for the upcoming school year: "For Colored High School students they will register at their school on the same dates as for the White students. They may elect Gillespie or Holsey." These sentences indicate that neither was particularly tethered to a school system. Cordele was still its own system in 1955-56 and its attendance figures published in the Dispatch on Sept. 8 included Holsey-Cobb and Gillespie-Selden.

Known schools 1951-52: Arabi Elementary, Gillespie-Selden Institute, Holsey-Cobb, Northside, Southview 1952-53: Gillespie-Selden, Holsey-Cobb, Northside (city), Southview (city) The Georgia Department of Education begins publishing a list of schools in 1956-57. 1956-57: Arabi (grades 1-7) (county); A.S. Clark (grades ?-12), Southview (grades 1-7) (city); Holsey-Cobb (grades ?-12) (private). County list is not complete. 1957-58: A.S. Clark (grades 1-12), Crisp County Training (1-7), Southview (1-7); Holsey-Cobb (6-12) (private) 1958-59: A.S. Clark (grades 1-12), Crisp County Training (1-7), Southview (1-7); Holsey-Cobb (8-12) (private) 1959-60: A.S. Clark (grades 1-12), Crisp County Training (1-7), Southview (1-7); Holsey-Cobb (8-12) (private) 1960-61: A.S. Clark (grades 1-12), Crisp County Training (1-7), Southview (1-7); Holsey-Cobb (8-12) (private) 1961-62: A.S. Clark (grades 1-12), Crisp County Training (1-7), Southview (1-7); Holsey-Cobb (8-12) (private) 1962-63: A.S. Clark (grades 1-12), Crisp County Training (1-7), Southview (1-7); Holsey-Cobb (8-12) (private) 1963-64: A.S. Clark (grades 1-12), Crisp County Training (1-6), Southview Junior High (7-8) 1964-65: A.S. Clark (grades 1-12), Crisp County Training (1-6), Southview Junior High (7-8) 1965-66: A.S. Clark (grades 1-12), Crisp County Training (1-6), Southview Junior High (7-8) 1966-67: A.S. Clark (grades 7-12), Crisp County Training (1-6), Southview Junior High (1-5) 1967-68: A.S. Clark (grades 7-12), Crisp County Training (1-6), Southview Junior High (1-5) 1968-69: A.S. Clark (grades 7-12), Crisp County Training (1-6), Southview Junior High (1-5) 1969-70: A.S. Clark (grades 7-12), Crisp Couty Training (1-6)

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