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Film on desegregation highlights black families’ passion for education

Melinda Lowrance recalls growing up in Hendersonville’s African-American schools and later integrated classrooms in the 1950s and ’60s during filming of David Weintraub’s documentary.

By Bill Moss, Published: June 12, 2024

Ten years after Brown v. Board of Education, Hendersonville’s city schools began to desegregate, first by selecting a few black children to “pioneer” the integrated classroom experience alongside white kids.