Word: lola
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flexible, unorthodox schedules. -Says Pierce, "We plan to introduce new shows all year round, and we want to develop new dramatic forms." With the success of Rich Man, Poor Man, he plans more serials from novels, and is also experimenting with short series like the recent four-program Lola Falana Show that was aired each week in a different time slot...
...Federal Government responded to the campaign by ordering the schools desegregated, and Lola Williams, the county's white school superintendent, issued a statement that any student in the system could attend the school of his choice. But when 88 blacks said they wanted to transfer to Alexander Stephens, Williams and the all-white school board simply closed the school. They explained that all of Stephens' pupils had asked to transfer to schools in adjoining counties. Taliaferro school buses were then used to carry the whites to schools outside the county. When black students tried to board the buses...
Although Taliaferro's two schools have been technically desegregated for a decade, not a single white has attended them since the court takeover. Nonetheless, they are still run by Lola Williams and an all-white school board. Taliaferro's white students have moved either to private academies (five have been set up since 1965), or to public schools outside the county. Some white families have moved out of the county, and Taliaferro's population (then 62%, now 64% black) has dropped from 3,300 in 1965 to 2,400 today...
...Lola Albright...
...Lola Nelson Auburn...