Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Black Firsts in Coweta

Mr. Frank A. Dodson was the last principal at Howard Warner High School and the first principal at Central High, a brand new school on Savannah Street, Newnan.

Jo Anne Rush was the first black teacher to teach at Elm Street. (daughter of Josephine Whatley Rush)

Josephine Rush, Mary S. Reese, Fannie Freeland, and another lady (Mrs. Rush couldn’t remember her name), all went to the “March on Washington in 1963 with keynote speaker Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Billy Reese was first black to go to Temple Avenue School. (son of Loyd & Mary S Reese)

The first black library was the Sara Fisher Brown Library. It was built on Savannah Street, it is now (2013) the Community Action For Improvement Center.

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