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Phylissa Mitchell
Virginia L. Murray Elementary School, Stone Robinson Elementary School, Burley High School, Albemarle High School
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So the purpose of athletics is to teach young people the lesson of working hard to achieve a goal, and also to work willingly with one another. So in that respect, I don’t know if there would have been as cordial — if I can use that term — integration would have been without that.