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their children attend private schools in Albany, Damascus, or Shellman. In 1970 when the Calhoun County schools consolidated, several of Leary's more prosperous whites pooled their money, bought a yellow Bluebird school bus, lettered it "Southwest Georgia Academy", and now, at great expense, trundle their boys and girls off in it every morning for the long ride necessary to assure that they will not attend classes with blacks.
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Leary is consequently a profoundly segregated town. Nine hundred and sixty-one people live in the hamlet. About seven hundred are black, and the rest are white. The whites live in several dozen neat brick and frame houses in the southwestern end of town. They live on paved streets with sidewalks, and
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Damascus, Georgia
segregation academy
Damascus High School
National Center for Education Statistics
Lea Henry
"History – About Us – Southwest Georgia Academy"
"A town lost in time"
Welcome
"IN MEMORY OF MR. WILLIAM ``W.T. THOMAS HENRY, SR"
"National Center for Education Statistics"
"Early County"
"Georgia State up for first Techseters"
Southwest Georgia Academy
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GISA
Brandon Hall Panthers
Cottage Cougars
Flint River Wildcats
Howard Hawks
St. Andrew's Lions
Twiggs Trojans
Southwest Georgia Warriors
Terrell Eagles
Windsor Knights
Brentwood War Eagles
Monsignor Donovan Rams

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