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From Threatened To Celebrated: North Texas Educator June Williams Davis Writing New Chapter In Black History
As a teenager growing up in East Texas, Davis has vivid memories of a world not ready to change.
By Robbie Owens, CBS Dallas/Fort Worth
February 25, 2021
CROWLEY, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – As a teenager growing up in East Texas, June Williams Davis has vivid memories of a world not ready to change.
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“I can remember growing up in Texarkana… and having colored water fountains and white water fountains,” she shares. But change was coming– whether the community wanted it or not. Her senior year spent not just studying history– but, making it. Hers was the class that integrated the all white high school.
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