CCHS media specialists and coaches are introducing a summer book club for student-athletes, who will read “The Crimson and Gold: Football and Integration in Athens, Georgia,” to celebrate the history of school integration in Athens.
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Athens High School was integrated between 1963 and 1969. With school consolidation the next year, people on both sides of the racial divide remained in Athens, Ga. as reminders of the road towards equality.