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Article: Washington pushed for integration in Bay County: promoting change.
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- News Herald (Panama City, FL)
- Article date:
- February 20, 2007
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Byline: Valerie Lovett
Feb. 20--PANAMA CITY -- Alifelong educator and now community matriarch, Louella Washington was more than a witness to the injustices of school segregation in Panama City -- she was a conduit for change.
Separate but unequal was a way of life for black students and teachers prior to the civil rights movement, said Washington, who looks decades younger than her 93 years.
Second-hand books, supplies, even sports uniforms from the white schools were common, she said.
"Back then we didn't have much to work with, we were just in the situation we were in, knowing we were going to get hand-me-downs," she said. "We just ...