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Some Stuff I Wrote and Some Stuff I Didn't (2011) H. Morris Williams

Gladys Franklin, Cora Lee Kenon, Bertha Vaugh, Carrie Jenkins
Ferguson and Mildred P. Coulter.

For many black students, the happiest days of their lives were spent at
Richardson High School. The school motto, “Enter to learn, depart to
serve” would stay with them all their lives.

Through consolidation, these 30-plus schools eventually evolved into
just four: Fort White Bethlehem under Principal Mildred Bennet; New

Hope under Principal Vertie Mae Barrett; Niblack Elementary under
Principal James Green; and Richardson High School under Principal

Martin Ferguson.

Shortly after racial integration, only Niblack remained open as a school.

The others became part of history.

They are gone but not forgotten. These schools and their teachers live on

in memory and in the lives of those they influenced.

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