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Integration shut their school, but lessons went with them: A reunion brought back songs and stories of Booker T. Washington Elementary School.

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From: Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)
Date: 20060813
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Byline: Reed Williams

Aug. 13--Of all her years in school, Darledia Alexander believes that her early days in kindergarten, at the crowded one-story brick schoolhouse in Franklin County, had the greatest impact in shaping the woman she has become.

Alexander recalls the old school bus that took her to Booker T. Washington Elementary School, where her classmates were more like brothers and sisters. They started the school day singing songs.

The segregated school for blacks closed in 1966, and Alexander was in kindergarten when she moved to Burnt Chimney Elementary ...

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