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Looking Back

Fifty years ago today, March 19, 1966

GEA Integrates

The Georgia Education Association has voted overwhelmingly to remove racial barriers to membership, but has also passed a resolution criticizing new federal government guidelines in school desegregation.

Wallaces

“We are willing to let the people speak,” Mrs. Lurleen Wallace said Friday night as she and her husband, Gov. George Wallace, officially kicked off her gubernatorial campaign.

Sports

Eight new records were set in the Georgia District Indoor age group swimming championships at Fort Benning Friday.

This story was originally published March 18, 2016 at 3:40 PM with the headline "Looking Back."

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