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The New Hanover County Board of Education made the decision in 1968, at the height of America's civil rights movement, to close the county's all-Black high school. Now, 55 years later, there is an effort to give the last two classes of Williston Senior High the graduation ceremony they missed.

On Aug. 2, 1909, Mr. Edwin A. Grozier, publisher of the Boston Post, forwarded a gold-headed ebony cane to the Board of Selectmen in 700 towns in New England.He asked that the cane be presented (with the compliments of the Boston Post) to the oldest...

55 years after the school board's decision, alumni from Williston's last two classes will get the chance to walk across the stage at their school and receive the graduation they've waited more than a half-century to enjoy.

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The New Hanover County School Board made the decision on June 26, 1968, more than 14 years after the United States Supreme Court r ...