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The Oak Ridge community celebrated the 68th anniversary of the historic integration of local schools by the Scarboro 85 on Wednesday. On Sept. 6th, 1955, 85 black students from the Scarboro neighborhood started school at Oak Ridge High School and Robertsville Junior High School. These students were the first to integrate schools in the Southeast.
The "Scarboro 85" integrated Oak Ridge High School and Robertsville school in the fall of the 1955. Come and hear stories from those former students.
Hear stories from Scarboro 85 members about their historic desegregation of Oak Ridge schools. The free town hall is July 27.
The recognition comes 66 years after the Oak Ridge 85 became the first Black students to integrate southeast public schools.
Member of OR 85 to speak to NAACP Oakridger Tuesday's NAACP meeting features a presentation by Ernestine Avery one of the 85 African American students who integrated the Oak Ridge Schools in 1955. Avery will share her experiences at 7 p.m. Tuesday during a Zoom meeting. This will be during the monthly general meeting of the Oak Ridge – Anderson County NAACP Branch. Avery will tell the story of being one of the first children coming to Oak Ridge in the 1940s. Rose Weaver, an active supporter of the effort to have these stories told, will moderate the 30-minute discussion with very. The gen...