Alamo Heights alums seek fellow Black pioneers who integrated the San Antonio suburb s schools
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Two people talk in the shadows in a hallway at Alamo Heights High School in 1962. Alamo Heights Independent School District, which previously had been white-only, integrated in 1955 with four children from the John Henry Smith family, who lived in Olmos Park.Courtesy / Alamo Heights ISD
My friend Everett Fly, who is a National for the Humanities medalist, and I, both Alamo Heights High School graduates, are trying to identify Black pioneers of the Alamo Heights school system to recognize. These folk integrated Heights during the 1950s and ’60s. We have some names and need help finding them so we can recognize them. If you could help, it would make a great column for Black History Month in the Express-News. Joseph and I are determined to use the February event to bring awareness to history that has been denied.
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