White Jonesboro schools had far more resources than Black ones did and, as time went on, Black Jonesboro residents realized they needed to take things into their own hands. Its teachers were the Sunday school teachers that students encountered in their churches, its auditorium hosted Black community concerts and plays. She said that once Black students finally got to enter white schools — Jonesboro High School in particular — it was a new civil rights struggle. Continuing into the 1970s and 1980s, Black families still fought for equity in Jonesboro schools. Black students were passed over for extracurricular activities, like cheerleading, and there were not many Black teachers.