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From the first published yearbook of the old Fayette County Training School, faces from 1964 peer across the years. Opened in 1955 — a year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling outlawing racial segregation in public schools — to educate black children on one campus, what is now East Fayette Elementary School sent its last students out the doors this past May. The first day of school, Aug. 11, will mark the first time in 53 years that no students will be attending the oldest school building in Fayette County. Historian Carolyn Cary has the story on Page B4. Photo from the 1964 annual provided by Carolyn Cary.

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