School's out: Dusty remains of 110-year-old Alabama high school that is now daubed in KKK graffiti
The auditorium has a large horseshoe shaped upper level, rows of seating which used to have wrought iron frames on the lower level, and look on to a proscenium stage
Now the grand auditorium is little more than a dust-covered wreck, with all of the ironwork pulled out, and the wooden seat covers left scattered across the floor
The classrooms are also covered in decades of grime with smashed in windows and the ceilings falling in. This room would once have housed 45 students
An old corridor at the school has now been daubed with racist graffiti celebrating the Klu Klux Klan, with two figures depicting klansmen dressed in robes
More graffiti on the same wall mentions a Klan rally at Bessemer city hall, perhaps recalling a rally in 1963 when Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton vowed klansmen would give their lives 'to protect segregation'
A certificate of registration from 1964, around two decades before the school closed its doors. A number of attempts to repurpose the building have been made since it shut, but none have been successful
These images were captured by urban explorer who goes by the handle Abandoned Southeast. He said he passed the school years ago on his way to work before returning to look inside
The school authority ruled the building unsound in 2008, and in 2013 began accepting bids to demolish it. Work began on tearing it down in 2014, but was never completed
Most of the old building still remains intact in Bessemer, standing at the corner of Arlington and 19th Streets