Gentry High School

Gentry High School is a public secondary school in Indianola, Mississippi, part of Sunflower County. At 801 B.B. King Road, the school is part of the Sunflower County Consolidated School District and was formerly part of the Indianola School District. History Segregation Historically the town of Indianola maintained separate high schools for its black and white students, with African-American students from one part of town enrolled at Gentry High School and white students enrolled elsewhere. In April 1969 the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the desegregation plan adopted by the Indianola Municipal Separate School District was unconstitutional. The town's de facto segregation, banned by the 1954 landmark United States Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education, was finally addressed, with the white high school converted to a junior high school while Gentry High School was integrated.