Footprints of Fayette

Warren O. Albrech t’s photograph of the Randolph School building in the late 1960s. – Courtesy of the Fayette Heritage Museum & Archives
Warren O. Albrech t’s photograph of the Randolph School building in the late 1960s. – Courtesy of the Fayette Heritage Museum & Archives

A Historical Column From The Fayette County Historical Commission

The Randolph School, Part 2 

Giles A. Randolph, the retired principal of the La Grange Negro High School, passed away on November 1, 1945. Six months later, in May 1946, the La Grange I. S. D. School Board renamed the school in his memory, honoring Randolph’s thirty-one influential years at the school’s helm.

In the 1940s many rur…