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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cat In The Hat And All That | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

...Tift Wood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Head of the Charles Results | 10/25/1983 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Peter Delissovoy, | Title: The Failure in Albany, Georgia | 10/22/1963 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Peter Delissovoy, | Title: The Failure in Albany, Georgia | 10/22/1963 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Peter Delissovoy, | Title: The Failure in Albany, Georgia | 10/22/1963 | See Source »

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