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Atlanta Public School Desegregation

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View of a crowd of people gathered in Atlanta City Hall on the day Atlanta's public schools were desegregated.Murphy High School was among the first all-white schools in Atlanta, Georgia to desegregate. The other schools were Brown High, Henry Grady High, and Northside High, all of whom admitted African American students on-08-30, 1961.
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