...mandated integration in area public schools. The first black pupil in an all-white Richmond County public school, Barbara Maria Gant, had enrolled in 1964. But for the system to reach full integration pupils had to be bused from different areas...

...STUDENTS attended area elementary schools in 1964 when the school board opened its first three grades to integration. Barbara Maria Gant, 6, was the first black student to attend Forest Hills Elementary school. The system was rapidly changing by the...