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• 1 media/ok-price-marker_compressed.jpg 2018-02-14T04:50:56-08:00 Blackshear School 1947 5 Dr. Dickey fights for a better school image_header 2018-03-29T03:50:50-07:00 30.5708499 N, -97.397891 W The state of Blackshear School was abysmal. According to a 1969 report made by Taylor Superintendent T. H. Johnson, Blackshear School in 1950 had 49 pupils in each of two 1^st  grade classrooms, 98 students in only one 2^nd grade classroom and between 48 and 50 students in each of the 4^th, 5^th, and 6^th grade classrooms. 3^rd grade was fortunate to have only 28 in each of two classes. Some of the classroom floors had holes due to termites. None of the classrooms had electrical outlets. There were no facilities for science labs, industrial arts, or vocational activities. The classrooms windows were the only source of light. The school did not even have a clock. In 1947, Dr. Dickey petitioned the city council and school superintendent about overcrowding in the colored school and the decrepit hand-me-down equipment from the white school.  Several school board members voiced concerns that colored students would vandalize new desks until Dr. Dickey showed them a specific desk with the initials D. M. engraved in the wood. Dating from about 1912, it had likely been the desk of Dan Moody, the future governor of the state of Texas. In 1954, the city purchased all pristine desks for newly named Blackshear/O. L. Price School, and within another 3 years, eight additional classrooms, including chemistry and physics labs were added to the school. The plum of the expansion was the Blackshear/OL Price gymnasium built in 1957.