“The Albemarle 26”

On 3 Sept. 1963, nine years after the U.S. Supreme Court declared racial segregation of public schools unconstitutional, 26 African-American students desegregated Albemarle High, Stone-Robinson Elementary, and Greenwood School. With the leadership and support of their parents, community members, and the Rev. R.A. Johnson, these students courageously sought and obtained the equal education deserved by all. Eighteen students formerly at Rose Hill Elementary in Charlottesville, Virginia, were the first to desegregate Stone-Robinson Elementary: Donnell Bates Jr., Garry Garland, Nathaniel Garland, Alfred Hawkins, Leon Hawkins, Haywood Johnson, Joan Johnson, Lewis Johnson, Matthew Johnson, Orlando Johnson, Sharon Johnson, Annetta Thompson, Theodore Thompson, Patricia Washington, Walter White, Gertrude Yates, James Yates, Jane Yates

Virginia · United States