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Born in 1953, Virginia Smith arrived into this world in Sycamore, Georgia delivered at home by a midwife. Due to the time period’s racist social policies, the hospital was a “whites only” establishment. But this was just her first introduction to…

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"In the past there have been two separate schools, we and they, black and white. In 1971 the two became one. This is our story: our triumphs and our failures, our good times and our bad times. TCHS 1971 OUR STORY..."

1970 May 28 - Integration - Plan Approved for school merger.jpg
Photos are in left to right order, top to bottom for new principals for the Integrated school system of Turner County Schools:
Jimmy Alberson
Rudene Gentry
Bill Hardin
Elie S. Griffin
Hodge King

New school grade/principal assignments:
Grades…

1970 April 16 - Integration - discussing the attempt to abolish dual school system.jpg
The beginning of the article discusses newly elected board member, Felton Pate. However, the second half discusses how the Turner County Board of Education planned "to wait until the last possible minute to submit a plan for abolishing Turner…

1970 Apr 9 - Integration - Private School Not Likely.jpg
"Plans to establish a private school here apparently have been forsaken in favor of support for other independent schools nearby."

1970 March 26 - Integration - Academy Calls Meeting here.jpg
The new school venture, The Turner County Academy, requires 150 students minimum to be enrolled or the "plans for a private school will be considered dead."

"'Quite frankly, the outlook is bleak,' a spokesman for the board said after its meeting…

1970 March 19 - Integration - Private School List Dwindles.jpg
Only 75 students have paid the 50% of tuition for the new proposed private school. They are considering only making it for grades 1-9 due to lack of high school student registration.

1970 Mar 5 - Integration - March 12 is deadline for registration for private school slated at Rebecca.jpg
"March 12 is the final date for enrollment of a student in Turner County Academy, the proposed private school here which will begin operation Sept. 1."

Tuition is $500.

It was voted to purchase the former Rebecca School from Charles Wideman of…

1970 Feb 26 - Integration - Board Wants Free Choice - must submit plan by March 1.jpg
Discusses the deadline - March 1, 1970 - for submitting a plan for integration of Turner County Schools. The Board of Education has a petition of more than 1,100 names of parents who want their children to have a choice of what school they attend. If…

1970 Feb 12 - Integration - Board Wants _Free Choice_.jpg
"A plan which calls for freedom of choice by students who will be allowed to attend any school they wish in Turner County will be submitted Feb. 28, school officials said.

They said they intend to follow this plan to 'the letter of the law.' If it…

1970 Feb 5 - Integration - Private School Now Lists 270_ Board Meetgs.jpg
"Confronted with a Federal Court order to abolish a dual school system by integrating all students and faculties, the Turner County Board of Education met..."

Turner County was one of 81 systems that were required to integrate or risk losing their…

1970 Jan 29 - Integration - Private School Entries Climb 1.jpg
"A count showed that 210 students already have been enrolled as prospective attendants at a private school which has been proposed by a citizens' group..."

"The crowd which turned out to discuss plans for the private school - an effort to take…

1970 Jan 22 - Integration - Forum Set on Private School.jpg
A public rally planned to discuss creating a private school for those who do not wish to integrate.

"Turner County Schools - like most other schools in Georgia - are faced with abolition of the dual school system and the possibility of extensive…
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