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Photos: Memories of segregated Bailey-Johnson School
Photos: Alpharetta’s Bailey-Johnson School served black students from 1950-1967. Fifty years later, two former students tour the old building.
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The Bailey-Johnson School in Alpharetta was built in 1950 to serve black students in North Fulton. Originally called Alpharetta Colored School until 1953, it consolidated three smaller all-black schools in Roswell, Alpharetta and Sheltonville (near today’s Johns Creek). This image is from 1952. (Kathleen Moon / Courtesy of Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center)
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