Word: gainesboro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro girl, Principal Prentice Copeland promptly paddled the troublemaker's bottom, put him on probation and made him apologize. Despite taut racial tensions in Bogalusa, La., where violence occurred recently, hesitant Negro children followed their determined mothers into once all-white schools as police held off spectators. In Gainesboro, Tenn., Peggy Williams, 13, not only became the first Negro in the town's elementary school, but her 30 white classmates elected her president of their eighth-grade home room. In Atlanta, the Rev. Martin Luther King's children, Yolanda and Martin Luther King III, who had previously...
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