GMA Dave Trips: Black History-Segregated Schools In St. Landry Parish
Honoring Students and Teachers at a Former Segregated Schools
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Segregation infiltrated everything in the south at one time. This included businesses, parks, pools, and restaurants. It wasn t until the mid 1970s that full integration of Louisiana schools was complete.
In Melville, the Black high school was called Phillis Wheatley High School. Pat Mason Guillory and Augusta Carmen Rideaux were students there in the 60s. Guillory recalls, We knew we went to the black school and others went to the white school. We had to go into a certain side of the store.we had to do that, but we didn t know no other way, we had to.
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Library of Congress photo Speaker of the House Tom Foley (right), First Lady Hillary Clinton and
House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt in 1993. W
hen Spokane had Tom Foley as its representative in the Congress, federal dollars poured in, bolstering our push for prosperity. From what are now buildings serving WSU s Elson Floyd School of Medicine to the Foley Center Library on the Gonzaga campus (named for his father, Ralph) to Fairchild Air Force Base to the Spokane International Airport, his impact is still felt today. The farmers of Eastern Washington had a power broker in Congress for whom their interests were a top priority. We did things, like putting on a World s Fair.
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After Training Changes, Air Force SERE School Sees Near-Historic Low Attrition
Air Force Staff Sgt. Dillon Harrison, 66th Training Squadron Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape specialist, stands in formation during a SERE Specialist Apprentice Course graduation ceremony at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, January 8, 2021. Harrison was the team leader for class 21-01, which holds the lowest attrition rate in years at only 7 percent in contrast to the average 50 percent. (Ryan Gomez/U.S. Air Force)
17 Jan 2021
The Air Force s elite survival school just accomplished an almost unheard-of feat: graduating a full class with almost no dropouts.
Twenty-six of 28 students graduated the Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape Specialist apprentice course last week, making it the most successful graduating class in years, according to Air Education and Training officials. Typically, about half of each class washes out during the final apprentice course because of its demanding n