Renaming to Booker T. Washington

The original colored high school was renamed after Booker T. Washington, a famous black educator who became the namesake of many black schools in the Southern United States. The Houston Informer stated that schools need to be named after prominent black people from the city and/or other successful black persons; this is general commentary on school naming and the sources do not link it directly as a cause of this school's renaming. The specific year of the renaming is not provided in the source passages.