My Christine Blasey Ford Moment

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I went to an all-boys high school. The school was built in 1924 and bore the name Lanier in honor of the Civil War poet Sidney Lanier. The school mascot was Poets.

Before 1964, no Black boy had ever sat in a classroom on its campus. That year five boys from the Black community enrolled to complete their senior year of high school. One of them was Vernon Pitts, for many years the head of the Fulton County…