Some history of Tunica Vocational High School, in Tunica, Mississippi explained and explored.

Tunica Vocational High School was a vocational school for black high school students in Tunica, Mississippi. This high school served as the precursor to Rosa Fort High School.

Tunica Vocational High School was first known as Tunica Colored Vocational High School. Tunica Colored Vocational High School educated students in grades 7 through 10 in the 1950s. Grades 11 and 12 were added later on. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/767251061/)

Tunica Vocational High School was built in 1952. Before construction of the Tunica Vocational High School, some of the students didn't enroll in high school. Their education ended. Parents used boarding high schools, in surrounding counties, for continuing their education. (Ref: https://books.google.com/books?id=NMdGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA763&lpg=PA763)

What led to the opening of Tunica Vocational High School was the closure of the one-room black schools by the late 1950s. The inequities between white and black students had only slightly improved as late as the early 1960s. Extreme inequalities between the dual school systems in Tunica County mirrored the state as a whole (Ref: https://dlynx.rhodes.edu/jspui/bitstream/10267/24060/1/2013-Cecil_Brown-Everything_But_Deliberate_Speed-McKinney.pdf)

Tunica Vocational High School was later renamed to Rosa Fort High School around 1961. Exactly when is unknown.

Tunica Vocational High School was located at 2400 Highway 61 North, Tunica, Mississippi, US 38676.