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Black Students Who Integrated Schools in Central Florida 50 Years Ago Share Their Stories

By Louis C. Ward (The Orlando Times, NNPA Member) Gessner Harris remembers White students hanging out of the windows at Eustis High School shouting racial slurs as he entered the school in 1965. Four White football players set fire to Thomas McClaryโ€™s sweater during chorus class that same year. Harris and McClary were the first […]

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