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An article in the Kingsport Times-News about the commencement speech at the Douglass High School graduation when the speaker, NAACP attorney Avon Williams, told graduates that they received a stunted education because of segregation. The article also…

A photograph of the 1943 Douglass Tigers football team in an undated Kingsport Times-News section entitled, "Out of the Attic." The caption includes a list of all the players' names

An article in the Kingsport Times-News about Douglass High School and its role educating black students in Kingsport for decades before integration

An article in the Kingsport Times-News in 2007 about the Douglass High School Alumni Association launching a website for the community of alumni to allow them to reconnect and share memories

A photograph of the 1965 graduating class from Douglass High school in the Kingsport Times-News section entitled, "Out of the Attic." Photograph caption includes the names of all graduates pictured.

A 2015 article in the Kingsport Times-News about the 50-year reunion of pre-integration, former black schools in East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia

An Adult Education certificate by Kingsport City Schools recognizing that Louetta Hall had completed training in Intro to Windows '95 in January 2000.

An illustration and description of the school used by black students between Chuckey and Rheatown, Tennessee. Part of an education exhibit at the Greene County History Museum.

Emily Manuel's class book for a kindergarten class. The record listed 13 names of students born between 1952 and 1955.

A mailer from the Douglass Alumni Association with an agenda of events and registration information for the upcoming 2007 Douglass High School reunion