In 1906, a levy in Fayette County established the county's first high schools, one for white children and one for black children. The original school for African American children was built at Turkey Knob, then replaced in 1917 by an eight-room brick building on the hill above Dunloop Creek. The school was named for Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, an educator and civil rights leader on the staff of Howard University in Washington, DC. DuBois High School offered classes including home economics, French, chemistry, world history, math, and English, and students took part in a band that performed at football games and competitions. Boys' football and basketball were the main team sports, while girls could join cheerleading but had no other sports. In 1950, the original schoolhouse was destroyed by fire. On January 30, 1954, the new DuBois High School reopened as an all-black high school. In the fall of 1956, DuBois and Mount Hope High Schools integrated, DuBois High School was renamed Mount Hope High School, and the former Mount Hope High School building became Mount Hope Junior High. After 1956, black students joined white students in band, chorus, school clubs, and organizations, and black male students played on the football and basketball teams with white male students; Kathleen Scott recalled that friends from other parts of the county began attending schools closer to where they lived, so they no longer saw them anymore.