RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- ABC11 is getting a better idea of the timeframe for the future of a historical Black school in Raleigh, which still stands as a piece of civil rights history.

For the many people who walked through its door s, Ligon Magnet Middle School has been a source of great memories. Now there are concerns about its future.

"All my older sisters and brothers graduated from Ligon High School," said Louis Archibald. "Hopefully they come up with a good solution, but please don't tear it down, we don't want that to happen."

Ligon High School opened in the 1950s as an all-Black high school, later becoming a junior high after integration, and later becoming a magnet middle school.

You can renovate the building as it is, but they will also create limitations in terms of what

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