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Carol City High class reunion of 1970 confronts prejudice with a segregated class reunion.
BY ROBERT SAMUELS
rsamuels@MiamiHerald.com
Even 40 years after graduation, Miami Carol City High’s class of 1970 bursts with a stubborn pride.
Pride for having a basketball team that went to the state championship their senior year.
Pride, for having a rocking marching band.
And lots of pride, for being one of the Miami-Dade’s first integrated classes to graduate without having a single, major racial disturbance.
Yet, it’s that same pride, some say, that might have led to an almost unthinkable reality in the year 2010: the class of 1970 still has segregated class reunions.
One white. One black.
Head cheerleader Peggy Tuck flew in from Texas to attend, shocked to be surrounded only by her white classmates at the Bahia Mar Beach Resort on Fort Lauderdale beach.
Two miles south, over the 17th Street Causeway, was another reunion, “The Miami Carol City Afro-American Reunion.”
“I have no idea what happened,” Tuck said. “We were a great, outstanding school. Over the years, we got fragmented.”
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/01/1756952/class-pride-tops-race.html#ixzz0w1iHnB88
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