Let's start with an obvious point many African students have told me.

Between 1911 and 1946 many African students passed through the office receiving almost $21,000.00 in educational support.

African American students did not attend the school until it was integrated in 1966.

Abdulmutallab was the only African student in the school of 70 students.

African American students made up 99% of the total student population with 53% qualifying for free lunch.

It was overwhelmingly white, with only 40 African students at the time of independence in 1975.

Just 47% of African American students were reading on grade level.

Some of the African students taken into custody by the police claimed they had been beaten up.

Over 3,000 African American students attended these schools in the summer of 1964.

The school admitted its first African American student in 1899.