The photo is dated November 29, 1972. I found it in the AJC digital collections archives. It depicts two white women who I feel safe saying were in opposition to school integration. They are carrying signage in protest of the busing of African American students to Highland Elementary School (located at 978 North Ave), as well as the possibility of the school being closed under the Atlanta Board of Education’s Desegregation Plan which was submitted to US Federal Court judges. The student body make up of Highland Elementary at the approximate date of this photo: 239 students 10 African American. I am still even with my research on the topic amazed when I see the physical proof of how negative and narrow minded the citizens of this country were and some still are. One woman’s sign actually reads, “NAACP is unfair to kids” all I can think is, in what regard?? By demanding equal education and the freedom to attend integrated school?? Who is that unfair to?? Is it not unfair to African American children to be forced to receive an inferior education solely based on their race??

I chose a document in the Steteson Kennedy Collection dated September 21, 1978 in which he was “writing” a letter to Dr. Solon Kimball in the Department of Anthropology at The University of Florida. In this letter he is attempting to sell the university an original Zora Neal Hurston piece entitled “Art and Such” as he has recently come upon the knowledge that they are in the process of establishing a Zora Neal Hurston fellowship. In the letter he acknowledges that he worked with Ms.Hurston on the Flordia Writers Project where she served as a researcher/writer and for several years at which time she would send would send him folktales and such form her files. He subsequently after her death discovered an original piece bearing heer name in pencil does 1/13/38 entitled Art and Such which had yet to be published.