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Cedar Hill Family Remembers Integration Into Cedar Hill ISD

One family looks back for being the first to integrate the Cedar Hill school district.

The Lacy Family, with their four young children lived in the projects in west Dallas. Shannon Lacy Rice says her dad was able to move his family to Cedar Hill

Cedar Hill Family remembers Integration

There had not been any black students in the school district until that day. Sister Dana Lacy Poteet says it was a milestone for her and her three siblings. They were a curiosity to the other students

She says they never faced any hatred but some some subtle insults,

Both got involved in basketball and excelled. They say their experience made them who they are.

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