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Today In Johnson City History: Oct. 12

A new junior high school, extorting a business leader, wooly worms and more were reported on this day in Johnson City history.

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Nikki Giovanni retires from Virginia Tech and plans two new books

"You aren't dead until you're forgotten. I didn't want Mulvaney Street in Knoxville to be dead." Nikki Giovanni created a legacy.

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Knox hospitals have come a long way since the first 20-patient facility

Black physicians were not allowed to practice at Knoxville General, which opened in 1902, without the supervision of a white physician until 1940.

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Details of Knoxville College's history are fascinating

Four of the first students at the school for Black citizens were the sons of the college's first president, all of whom where white.

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