the City of Alexandria combined three high schools into one. The football team has more than 22 returning starters and easily won the state championship. And the film totally ignored who integration affected female students.
I worked with a guy who went to TC Williams during the championship season. He says things weren't too chummy, chummy. There was a lot of animosity between the races. Today, I believe Williams has been renamed because old TC was the worst thing you can be- a "racist." Alexandria's gentrification has forced out some of the black and white blue-collar population. Alexandria is filled with $1 million + townhouses, mostly owned by white lefties. It also has a large Hispanic population of about 20 % who live in the old white blue-collar parts of Alexandria.
I was in a still all white 6th grade. A few rocks were thrown at buses at my sister's 10th grade newly junior high, but it was nothing like the Boston busing riots. I learned very little during an unpleasant integrated 7th, so was put in a private school for 8-12. The only black guy my older brother's "gang" kept up with for years had been their teacher.
The large '40s garden apt complex near us wanted to convert to condo, the City wouldn't let it, so the owners deliberately let it be trashed for the rest of the 70s. By the time I left in '92, native blacks were largely confined to public or subsidized housing, except for Dad's neighbors from DC, who doubled the size of their large house and vacationed in Europe.
I heard that "Titans" took some liberties, too. The state championship game was a 27-0 rout after an undefeated season.
Can integration be called a success if the school system population drops in half in the 70s, as it did in Alexandria?
the City of Alexandria combined three high schools into one. The football team has more than 22 returning starters and easily won the state championship. And the film totally ignored who integration affected female students.
I worked with a guy who went to TC Williams during the championship season. He says things weren't too chummy, chummy. There was a lot of animosity between the races. Today, I believe Williams has been renamed because old TC was the worst thing you can be- a "racist." Alexandria's gentrification has forced out some of the black and white blue-collar population. Alexandria is filled with $1 million + townhouses, mostly owned by white lefties. It also has a large Hispanic population of about 20 % who live in the old white blue-collar parts of Alexandria.
I was in a still all white 6th grade. A few rocks were thrown at buses at my sister's 10th grade newly junior high, but it was nothing like the Boston busing riots. I learned very little during an unpleasant integrated 7th, so was put in a private school for 8-12. The only black guy my older brother's "gang" kept up with for years had been their teacher.
The large '40s garden apt complex near us wanted to convert to condo, the City wouldn't let it, so the owners deliberately let it be trashed for the rest of the 70s. By the time I left in '92, native blacks were largely confined to public or subsidized housing, except for Dad's neighbors from DC, who doubled the size of their large house and vacationed in Europe.