No I hate to admit it but she's that smart!!!!!!!!

 Thank you so much everyone for your help! I must say I'm still a little confused but, then it doesn't take that much to confuse me sometimes, haha! So...is it 1971 from what I understand and read in the articles? I know some have said in the 60"s but as far as full out bussing and integration it was 71?  Someone mentioned before our Freshman year which would have been 72 is when whey started busing in from some of the Black schools over to Baker...All this said I wanted to make sure we included this date in our Baker Facts, because if this hadn't had happened...well, then...we would all have missed out on knowing some amazing people!

 Wow...after reading some more, and one of the larger articles Linda posted, I just have to say reading some of it just makes me sad. For me personally, I have never "seen" color even when I was a little girl... or understood how much "color" rather it be black or white can seem to stand out to people. Hopefully, one day people will be colorblind.

David and Pete....I don't have a comeback other than what a nice complement.  Actually, all I did was Google.  Tyrene, it is a sad history.  We just have to work to see each other with respect no matter what color, race or creed.  I hope you were able to gather the information you needed for your class's reunion.  Have fun, ya'll. 

And TEZ...you know how I feel about you.  We wouldn't be united today as a group, if you had not created this website. Many thanks to you.

 Thanks again for helping with the info Linda! We are VERY excited about the Reunion Celebration!!! Thank you for the happy wishes!  and Linda is so right Terry! Thanks to you, we are all connected to one another again  and more thanks for your dedication to Baker. Haha! I ask my share of question and for your help, that's for sure. 

Bill Turman, Class of 1965.  I was an ROTC Squad leader in 1964.  Bob Leonard, one of first three black students, was in my squad.  I believe we started integrating with Bob, a fellow named Larry and a female black student in 1964.  I know Bob and Larry are in the 1965 Annual.

William Earl Turman wrote:

Wayne Grimes, class of '65. They started integration with the senior class of '65. Robert Leonard and Larry Smith were the first. I was also thinking there was a girl, but I'm not sure she graduated with the class. I believe the next year they integrated lower grades and worked down through the grades until integration was accomplished all the way through.

Baker High was integrated at the start of the 63/64 school year, there were 4 girls from Carver who were enrolled. I remember talking with a network news reporter who told me where to stand to get my picture on the newsreel. Each night I turned on the news looking fot the story, but, since it was so uneventful the video was never broadcast. So much for my moment of fame, lol. Having also attended Baker in the first grade, this is something, I remember with clarity. I am surpised that no one else remembers this event, the camera was positioned to the exit of the driveway loop adjacent to Victory Drive. This all happened very quickly, the car stopping with the 4 girls exiting and their being escorted into the school in less than a minute. We were not the first school in Georgia to integrat, as a year earlier, 4 in Atlanta were integrated. That link is to long to type in, so you will need to do a google search, as we cannot cut and paste.

But I have included the link to Baker High below:

Reference: "The Long And Winding Road" book on integretation  in Georgia, use the following link to access a preface to the book:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/40584445?seq-1

Update, during the 1964-5 school year, the first black male student attended our school, he is the only one during that school year, I remember passing him in the hallway between classes.