Editing DuPont Manual High School (section)

===Merger===
By the 1940s, budget concerns and national trends made it clear that Louisville Girls High School and duPont Manual would merge into one coeducational school. They finally did so in September 1950 and remained in the old Louisville Girls High School building. This fusion of institutions resulted in the birth of the modern duPont Manual High School – dropping 'Training' from its previous name. The same school building remains in use today, although two major additions have since been made.<ref name=Manual_history>{{cite web|url=http://www.dupontmanual.com/about.htm|title=About Manual|publisher=duPont Manual High School|access-date=March 8, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129061547/http://dupontmanual.com/about.htm|archive-date=January 29, 2009}}</ref> The middle school located on the building's first floor became Manly Junior High and moved to Manual's old building at Brook and Oak.<ref name="cj50" />

The merged school began developing traditions such as [[Homecoming]] in 1951, and Red and White Day in 1953. Red and White Day eventually became a full week of [[school spirit]] related activities preceding the annual Male-Manual football game. Two traditions of the sexually segregated past, [[sororities]] and the all-male Mitre Club, persisted into the 1950s as unofficial organizations but gradually faded away. Students began publishing a newspaper, ''The Crimson Record'', in 1955.<ref name="reunion">{{cite news|title=A Century of Class-Manual High School Alumni Recount Glory Days at 100th Anniversary Party|date=November 29, 1992|author=Quinlan, Michael|work=The Courier-Journal}}</ref>

Following the ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' Supreme Court decision, Manual became racially integrated without controversy in 1956 and graduated its first two black students in 1958.<ref name="mcd">{{cite book|title=Stand Up and Cheer : the Official History of du Pont Manual High School, Louisville, Kentucky|isbn=1-884532-67-5 |publisher=Butler Books|year=2005|author=McDaniel, Mike|pages=179–181}}</ref> Starting in the 1960s, Manual began to face problems associated with [[inner city]] schools in the United States as economically advantaged families moved towards Louisville's suburbs. Manual was exempt from [[Desegregation busing in the United States|court-ordered busing]] in the 1970s because its racial makeup already met federal guidelines.<ref name="riot">{{cite news|title=Racial Fight at Manual brings injuries, arrests|date=November 1, 1976|author=Nichols, Wanda|page=1A|work=The Courier-Journal}}</ref>

On November 11, 1976, what school board members referred to as a race-related riot occurred on campus, injuring 16 and leading to six arrests and 60 suspensions.<ref name="riot" /> Students and school administrators agreed that there was an atmosphere of racial tension brewing at Manual in the 1970s that led to the riot.<ref>{{cite news|title=Manual teachers want money for more security guards|date=November 13, 1976|author=Nichols, Wanda|work=The Courier-Journal|page=1B}}</ref> In his 2005 book on the history of Manual, Mike McDaniel wrote that November 11, 1976 was "quite probably the worst day in the history of Manual."<ref>McDaniel ''Stand Up and Cheer'', p. 196</ref>

The late 1960s and 1970s were a time of major change at Manual. A new wing featuring a gym with a [[seating capacity]] of 2,566 opened in 1971.<ref name=SportsDirectoryInfo /><ref>{{cite news|title=Gym Dandy – Manual's Athletic Facility to be Named After Charmoli|page=B7|work=Louisville Times|date=May 31, 1972|author=Carrico, Johnny}}</ref> The school had as many as 3,360 students in the 1971–72 school year, necessitating 17 portable classrooms in the front and rear courtyards. Manual still had grades seven through twelve at this time, and overcrowding gradually began to improve after Manual dropped the seventh and eight grades when Noe Middle School opened in 1974. Throughout the decade the administration gradually dropped the last vestiges of its manual training emphasis as the number of [[Industrial arts|shop]] classes dwindled from 16 in 1971 to three in 1979.<ref name="mcd" /> The [[Youth Performing Arts School]], actually a magnet school within Manual, opened in 1978 and, along with the changing curriculum, presaged Manual's transition to an academically intensive magnet school in the 1980s.<ref name="yater">{{cite book|title=Two hundred years at the falls of the Ohio : a history of Louisville and Jefferson County|edition=2|publisher=[[Filson Club]]|year=1987|author=Yater, George H.|page=238|isbn=978-0-9601072-3-0}}</ref>