Louisiana, being a southern state, did not have many public high schools for African Americans to attend. There have always been both public and private elementary schools in the Scotlandville community. In the 1950s there was only one high school available for people of color and that was McKinley High School. This lasted until 1960, when Scotlandville Magnet High School was officially established. At a meeting in New Orleans in 1879, members of the Louisiana state constitutional convention chose to support the proposal of four black delegates. These delegates were PBS Pinchback, TT Allain, TB Stamps and Henry Demas. They wanted to create a higher institution of learning for the African American population. At another meeting Allain introduced another bill, which called for the "implementation" of Law 231. This called for the creation of an institution to establish a school known as Southern University in April 1880. After the signing of the current governor, Nichols, a twelve-member Board of Trustees and a faculty of “Arts and Letters” were established. The teachers were highly educated in every field and awarded degrees only to those deemed worthy and deserving; the first students entered in March of the year 1881. In 1910 Dr. Joseph Samuel Clark, president of Baton Rouge College and the Louisiana Colored Teachers Associations, formed a committee that requested Governor J. Y. Sanders that a training school for aspiring teachers be located to a more rural area of ​​Louisiana. The governor declined the proposal but favored the idea of ​​removing Southern University from the city of New Orleans. The future is yet to come, but the past is what we learn from. The present is what we... half paper... therefore new needs. Students were required to have a minimum 2.5 to enroll and maintain and 3.0 similar to today's requirements. They also renovated the new magnet school. The ratio of the four black to white student body was 80 to 20. Set the limit on black enrollment until there were no more whites to enroll. In 1983 Scotlandville Magnet decided that they would have a significant increase in whiteness and start a new program. This is not just a school but a community. A community where the neighbors all came together. They all believed in fighting together and making it together. This community has gone through the worst struggle ever to become the community it is today. Its rich and illustrious past should never go unnoticed. We should never forget our past. Scotlandville's struggle to improve the black community is very significant.