HJR606 Summary

• Congratulates A.H. Parker High School in Birmingham on its 110th anniversary on May 8, 2010

• Recognizes the school's founding in 1900 as "Negro High School" by Dr. W.R. Pettiford and Mrs. B.H. Hudson, opening with 18 students and growing to 45 by the end of the first school year

• Documents the school's history including its 1910 relocation and 1939 renaming to A.H. Parker High School in honor of its founding principal Dr. Arthur Harold Parker

• Notes the school has been continuously accredited since 1953 by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and credits it as a monument to African-American progress in Alabama and the United States

• Directs that a copy of the resolution be presented to Dr. Spurgeon Banyard, the school's eighth principal, as recognition of the milestone