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...story begins in 1996, when Spencer Elementary School teacher-librarian Terri Nalls had a problem. Her students, 92% of them low income, couldn't read a stop sign let alone a book. She wondered if Mike Brumby, who ran the Tift County Foundation for Educational Excellence, could help her buy a reading program called Accelerated Reader...
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...talked most about the Tift Park swimming pool. It was early summer, hot, and the pool, which the City of Albany was keeping segregated despite court rulings by "selling" to a private party, was a prime symbol of discrimination. Knight wanted to blow it up--white swimmers and all. I argued for demonstrations, saying that these would involve more Negroes than a simple demolition job, and so lead to a longer, wider struggle. And I remarked the possibility of victory and suggested there should be something left to swim...
Amid cheers, Knight walked back to his seat, committed now to integrating Tift Park pool. A few days later, when we demonstrated against segregation in public accommodations, he went to jail with...
...Tift Park pool was still segregated of course. The demonstrations had not made segregation of the pool an issue even. Most whites did not know the demonstration had occurred...