Consolidation and desegregation in the Orange County Schools

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1. 1961–1963 Orange County Board of Education closes Caldwell School The school board voted in 1961 to close the white-only Caldwell School, built in 1925, as desegregation approached. After a plan to send its pupils to Cameron …Open Orange: Caldwell School
2. 1963 Aycock and Hillsborough High schools are consolidated into Orange High School When Orange High School opened in 1963, the county consolidated the high school grades of Aycock School in Cedar Grove and Hillsborough High School into it, an…Open Orange: 6116 Efland Cedar Grove Rd. / Aycock High School
3. Fall 1963 Orange High School begins desegregation Tonya and Narviar Cathcart entered Orange High School after their family’s transfer petition was approved.Orange County Historical Museum
4. May 20, 1965 Three Black students desegregate Aycock School in Cedar Grove Under the county's Freedom of Choice plan, three Black families asked for their children to be transferred to the white Aycock School, and on May 20, 1965 the …Open Orange: 6116 Efland Cedar Grove Rd. / Aycock High School
5. 1968 Central High students march and Orange County schools integrate In 1968 Black students at Central High School in Hillsborough walked out and marched to protest a plan for phased desegregation. After Central's last class gra…Alliance for Historic Hillsborough: Central High School/Agnes Kindergarten