The grand reunion is a tradition started in 2001 with the intent of keeping the spirit of the school alive. Freeman Park for a block party to begin the Industrial Druid High School Grand Reunion. On Saturday morning, Druid High graduates gathered at A.L. “The vibe I get by just coming down this street, it's very sentimental because you can look at every corner and know it was instrumental in your upbringing.” “This is home,” said Rubye Davis Haskins on Saturday as she looked across Dragons Lane to where her alma mater once sat. In 1979, Druid High and the old Tuscaloosa High School on 21st Avenue merged to become Central High School in a new building on 15th Street, in an effort to end segregated education in the city.īut for the graduates who walked the school's halls before it shut its doors in 1979, Druid High is a symbol of love and community at a time when it was needed most. Boulevard and Dragons Lane.ĭruid High opened in 1955 with 931 black students from the old Industrial High School, which opened in 1935. TUSCALOOSA | The Druid High School building is gone, torn up from its place along what is now the corner of Martin Luther King Jr.
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