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Certificate of Award for Sylvia Sue Barnette, valedictorian Nelson-Merry Class of 1955 with free one year subscription to Reader's Digest. Folded front cover of Nelson-Merry Commencement Exercises pamphlet labeled 5/23/54. Black and white photographs…

1950 and 1960 rosters for the football team and both the girls and boys basketball teams. Black and white pictures of teams, fans and coaches with some labels. One set of handwritten rosters for the girls and boys basketball teams with no date.…

Nelson-Merry School classmate signatures from the collection of Julia Taliaferro. No date is given.

Black and white photos of school friends at various school events, including prom and clean-up day.

Julia Taliaferro is pictured with her Nelson-Merry history collection on the front page of the Standard Banner newspaper as an icon of Black History Month.

The Senior Memories of Sylvia Sue Barnett, Class of 1955 at Nelson Merry High School, are documented in a booklet that has been filled out by hand.

The following information is included:

Facility and Staff-
R. H. Turk, E.E. Peck, Mrs.…

"If recommendation by the Jefferson City Parks and Recreation Commission is approved by the city council, Nelson-Merry School will torn down except for the gym and former science area..."

This newspaper article gives a history of how Nelson-Merry School came to be and what lies ahead for the future of the building now that it is no longer in use due educational integration.

Standard Banner interviews Julia Taliaferro, leader of the fight to wear pants to school, before the Nelson-Merry History Celebration at Boyd's Chapel United Methodist Church the following Sunday. Taliaferro shares facts about the school and memories…

Former Nelson Merry football players describe their experience and racial tension that occured in and around Jefferson City.Photographed in the first picture include Carl Mills, Ross Cunningham, and Ed Langston wearing NM shirts during a reunion.…