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Kent Merritt
Lane High School
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The conventional wisdom at the time was that the white school had better facilities; it was better for us than the Black school, that was a emphasis on integrating for us because they thought that we would get a better education. But it was not a discussed thing. It was just they decided that this is what they were going to do.