Happy start, happy end
In 1923 EISD superintendent J.W. O’Bannion addressed a large and enthusiastic audience of African-American citizens who decided by meeting’s end to raise $2,000 to purchase a site off Gilmer St. for the proposed Ennis Colored High School, building bonds for which had been voted on the previous year.
The campus, eventually known as George Washington Carver, and incorporating a …