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Edgemont High School. In 1927, with the construction of Booker T. Washington High School for
African-American students on Virginia Street and the new Rocky Mount High School for white students on Marigold Street, both races had separate, self-contained high school campuses. The (all-white) Rocky Mount High School moved to a new campus on Tillery Street in 1953 and changed its name from Rocky Mount High to Rocky Mount Senior High. Voluntary integration began in the early 60s when the first African-American students chose to attend
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the student body voted to adopt a new, combined mascot: the
Gryphons (Griffins)—mythological beasts that were part bird and part lion—chosen from a list of student-submitted names. The former Lions' school colors of royal blue and gold and the Blackbird's former school colors of black and gold were also blended to form the new school's colors of blue/black (a dark navy) and gold. In this manner the two schools further cemented their union into a single entity. The school officially returned to its older
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Schools for White Children took over Edgemont School on Cokey Road and it became
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