Flashback Fotos: School in Georgia through the years

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Flashback Fotos: School in Georgia through the years

High school students, Atlanta, Georgia, circa 1940s. Original caption: "Good health, typified by Bill Johnson, BHS grid star, is high on the ideal husband list of Mackie Stacks, Elizabeth White, Evelyn Harwell."

High school and elementary school teachers in tupelo gum swamp, Covington, Georgia, June 18, 1993. Betty Ann Killingsworth, left, leads the way through a tupelo gum swamp as a group of elementary and high school teachers learn first-hand about the natural environment. They are on a two-week summer program at Emory at Oxford.

Elementary school student break dancing, during A. Philip Randolph Elementary School visit to Lake Windard Elementary School, Alpharetta, Georgia, January 14, 1993.

White students of Northside High School (later North Atlanta High School) on the first day of its racial integration, Atlanta, Georgia, August 30, 1961.

Three African American students leaving in a 1954 Ford from Northside High School (later North Atlanta High School) on the first day of its racial integration, Atlanta, Georgia, August 30, 1961.

Jimmy Carter meets a group of school children at The Galloway School on April 28, 1994.

Brazil's soccer star Pele meets with Atlanta elementary school students on October 19, 1987.

Milton High School teacher Carol Call teaches a sex education class, Alpharetta, Georgia, January 28, 1991.

Atlanta Braves Dale Murphy with Sherita Knox and William Watkins of Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School, Atlanta, Georgia, 1986.

Faculty and students pose outside of College Park's first grammar school, 1908.

Students forming the letters "G.H.S." in front of the Girls High School building in the Grant Park area of Atlanta, Georgia, 1946.

Two women holding picket signs, protesting the busing of Atlanta students to attain racial integration of public schools, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1972.

High school students getting off the trolley at the new Girls High School, Atlanta, Georgia, circa 1925.

Quarterback Hines Ward being congratulated by teammate, Bryan Parker, following a first-quarter touchdown, Forest Park High School, Forest Park, Georgia, September 10, 1993.

Drawing class, model in two-piece bathing suit posed for drawing class at the High Museum School of Art, October 1941.

School children visit the Bowman Prikle cabin at Lanier Museum of Natural History, Buford, Georgia, May 16, 1989.

School kids jumping into swimming pool, Atlanta, Georgia, 1953.

Two young African American women, Annie Ruth Dennis and Irma Lee, applying for school admission, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1, 1961.

North Avenue Presbyterian School girls eating desert after playing basketball, Atlanta, Georgia, February 2, 1947.

Family of Colonel William O. Poindexter boarding the school bus, LaGrange, Georgia, January 27, 1959.

Girls playing basketball and chewing bubble gum in the gym at North Avenue Presbyterian School, Atlanta, Georgia, February 2, 1947.

Students studying in class at Boys' High at Courtland and Gilmer Streets, Atlanta, Georgia, 1900.

Interior view of segregated African American school, 1949. This Appling County school was "all negro" December 1949.

Future flight attendents exercising at a new school in Atlanta, Georgia, 1940s. Original caption: Hip-slimming exercises are part of the training given future air-line hostesses at a new school in Atlanta. Left to right, Marsha Ivey, Rowena Kidd, Mary Lou Walker, Wanda Ruth Hidges, directed by Ruth Harris.

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High school students, Atlanta, Georgia, circa 1940s. Original caption: "Good health, typified by Bill Johnson, BHS grid star, is high on the ideal husband list of Mackie Stacks, Elizabeth White, Evelyn Harwell."

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