L.C. Anderson High School (originally called E.H. Anderson High School) opened in East Austin in 1907 as a high school for African American students. Anderson High School would educate Austin's African American students for sixty-four years until its forced closure in the early 1970s. Anderson High had four locations in East Austin before a federal judge ordered the Thompson Street iteration of Anderson High School to close in 1971 because it was still racially segregated years after Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka . The closing of the school was not a popular decision among some of the former students and community members because they felt that the school was integral part of the East Austin African American community. The Austin Independent School District (AISD) opened a new high school campus in Northwest Austin and named the school L. C. Anderson High School in honor of the East Austin High School. Today the former East Austin locations of the High School are often referred to as the "Original L. C. Anderson High School."
Lucile Edna Frazier was born in Travis County, Texas to Daniel and Treater Frazier. She received her B.A. degree in English from Samuel Huston College (now Huston-Tillotson College) in 1938 and a M.A. in English from Prairie View A& M College in 1956. She continued with post-graduate study at Northwestern University, the University of Michigan and the University of Texas at Austin. Frazier started teaching English at Anderson High School in 1947 after transferring from Blackshear Elementary School. She also served as the Faculty Advisor for the Anderson High School Yellow Jacket Yearbook. Frazier retired in 1969 after thirty years as a teacher in Austin Schools. She died on September 19, 1983.
From the guide to the Lucile Edna Frazier L. C. Anderson High School Photograph Collection AR. 2011. 043., 1948-1974, circa 1950s, (Austin History Center, Austin Public Library, )
