 Sheridan had a segregated school for African-Americans until the "Brown v. Board" decision.At the time, Sheridan had around 199 African American residents out of the town's total population of 1,898.On May 21, 1954, the local school board voted unanimously to integrate its 21 African-American students into its high school to avoid the $4,000 it would have cost the school board to send them to Jefferson County.