“I knew it was not going to be easy that first day because, when we sat down, people got up.”
– Many are surprised today to learn that Ribault High School in Northwest Jacksonville was a white-only school in the 1960s.
She and the other students had to take a foreign language, which was not offered at Black schools, in order to get in. “I knew it was not going to be easy that first day because, when we sat down, people got up,” Pearson said. “What I respected about the school is that the teachers protected us and they did not allow any bad behavior.”
“What happened during that time, and I think there are vestiges today, is the white flight from the school district,” the former desegregation coordinator said.But Poppell said magnet schools were then offered. It’s something that was not forced like bussing. It gave people a choice -- a choice she says is still working. She no longer works with the school system, but I asked her about schools today.
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