Former Student Bussed To Grady High Recalls Life Before School’s Name Change

In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark case, Brown vs. Board of Education, voided separate but equal public schools.

Years later, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. continued the push for black students, in particular, to have guaranteed equal access to quality education. Although Dr. King didn’t live to see his eldest daughter, Yolanda, attend a predominately white school,  life-long friend Angela Robinson was along for the journey.

As part of a Minority to Majority program, Robinson, Yolanda and others were bused from their black neighborhoods to what was then called Grady High—-a predominately white school named after Henry Grady, a journalist who many called racist.