were rejected, being told that the Board of Education and City Council were unable to make the necessary arrangements. There were no temporary or permanent high school facilities in Nashville for these rejected students, as the law directed... It would be high and noble compliance on the part of the city to as speedily as possible consummate permanent high school facilities for the present and rapidly growing class of colored youth who are passing beyond the present school grades and who for the lack of which are forced to close their school lives much earlier than at first contemplated... A petition be circulated among all colored people and their friends for signatures asking the City Council for the necessary approbation for the above purpose" <p> The notice of the follow up was inserted in the daily papers on September 16, 1886 and asked for inter-racial effort, saying: "All citizens, both white and colored, who are interested in promoting the educational interests of the youth of the city are earnestly and cordially requested to meet at the Spruce Street Baptist Church on Friday evening September 17th to take further steps by endorsing the object and action of the meeting held at the Clark Chapel Tuesday night, toward securing the high-grades in the colored public schools which they are now deprived of". In September 1886, Superintendent S.Y. Caldwell reported that by shifting some classes the "excluded 9th and 10th grades, colored, can accommodated in Meigs School" which "was not taxed to its full capacity and would consequently accommodate some more pupils," and could be given since D.N. Crosthwait, a principal at Meigs School, since he was a college graduate and capable of handling those grades. Students began school September 20, 1886 at 8 am. Students demanded to use the same subjects and textbooks that white students at Fogg High School used as they desire an equivalent education of their white counterparts. In 1898, high school classes were moved from Meigs to Pearl, creating one centrally located high school for Black Students. Upon completion of 8th grade at Meigs School, students were transferred to Cameron Junior High School for 9th grade, and then on to Pearl Senior High for the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades. March 15, 1933, Meigs was destroyed by a tornado. Students had no school for several days due to the storm because it was the only Black school in