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On September 4, 1963, Graymont Elementary School became the first public school in Birmingham to be racially integrated when two brothers, nine and eleven years old, accompanied by their father, James Armstrong, along with Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and attorney Oscar Adams Jr., became the first African Americans to register in an all-white city school. The 1963 desegregation of Graymont Elementary, as well as of West End High and Ramsey High in the same year, came in response to a court suit challenging Birmingham's segregated education system. James Armstrong had initiated the case in 1960, but it was not until three years later that the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court compelled the school board to admit black students.
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