Webb Alumni 56th Annual Homecoming is This Weekend

McKENZIE (August 25) — Webb School is hosting its 56th annual Homecoming this weekend in McKenzie.

The activities at the Walnut Street campus include the opening on August 29 with hospitality between 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The event includes a fiesta bar, line dancing, a DJ, and card playing.

On August 30, 12:30 p.m., Webb Got Talent event with local talent performing in a competition. Food trucks, a DJ and product vendors will be in attendance.

August 31 is the Fashion Show, 5 to 7 p.m. showing the latest fashion trends. Pevice Jamison will provide the entertainment.

The annual picnic is 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on September 1. At 1 p.m. is the Impersonator Revue featuring various R&B artists, a raffle drawing at 2 p.m., product vendors, food trucks, a DJ and games.

The McKenzie Webb School, a historic Rosenwald school for African-American students, closed in 1966. Its alumni remain active, forming the Webb Alumni Association in 1969 to preserve the school’s legacy. They purchased the building in 1971, and opened a museum within it in 2016 to house school artifacts. The alumni host an annual Labor Day homecoming with events and a fashion show, and provide scholarships to students, ensuring the school’s history and the educational impact it had in Carroll and surrounding counties are kept alive. The school building itself was recently placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Webb School served as the only high school for African-American students in Carroll County.

It was a vital institution that educated many teachers, business leaders, and professionals in a time when opportunities were scarce due to segregation.

The school closed in 1966 due to integration.