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movement all white schools in the city where shut down to prevent racial integration. The city council then held a vote to additionally shut down all black schools, Martin was the sole dissenting vote on the city council voting to keep the schools open.
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fear that they would be left covering the cost of the institution without state funding. Nine years later in 1962, this proposed transition was revisited and passed with the division becoming the Old
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