After the Society of Friends donated High Point Normal and Industrial School to the High Point City Schools, it began operations on September 8, 1923, as the Normal High School, the city's high school for African Americans. The new principal, E.E. Curtright (top row, center) and the former principal, Alfred J. Griffin (center, front) are pictured here with a class around 1928, the year the school's name changed to William Penn High School.

This photograph appeared in The High Point Enterprise on Monday, September 12, 2016.

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