March 4, 2015
Florence King (nee Harris, left) grew up on Old Telegraph Road and had the option to attend Edison High School her senior year. She graduated from Luther Jackson High School instead in 1965. When Sandra McNeill (nee Evans, right) and her family moved in close to the Harrises, they were among the only African American families in their neighborhood. McNeill also graduated from Luther Jackson with the class of 1965, completing several credits over the summer at Edison High School.
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1965 Luther Jackson graduates from Springfield and Alexandria remember the county’s only African American high school.
Florence King was pretty impressed with her school bus driver. The Alexandria resident grew up on Old Telegraph Road and rode the bus to both Drew Smith Elementary School in Gum Springs and Luther Jackson High School, prior to desegregation. King graduated from Luther Jackson in 1965.
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