PIKE
COUNTY GOT A BIG WRITE-UP IN THE SUNDAY AJC ABOUT A
GRADUATION CEREMONY SET FOR SATURDAY AT 10AM AT THE PIKE
COUNTY AUDITORIUM FOR THE CLASS OF 1969 AT PIKE COUNTY
COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL—THE SCHOOL FOR MINORITY STUDENTS AT
THE TIME. STUDENTS WHO NEVER RECEIVED A DIPLOMA.
THE
AJC SAID THE STUDENTS WERE DENIED DIPLOMAS BECAUSE THEY
TOOK TO THE STREETS AND PROTESTED THE WAY THE COMMUNITY WAS
HANDLING DESEGREGATION.
ACCORDING
TO AJC POLITICAL WRITER JIM GALLOWAY—AS PUNISHMENT THE
CLASS OF 1969 WAS BARRED FROM GRADUATION AND NEVER RECEIVED
DIPLOMAS.
THE
PIKE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION PASSED A RESOLUTION LAST
YEAR AUTHORIZING DIPLOMAS FOR THE STUDENTS --31 STILL LIVING
13 DECEASED.
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