COLUMBIA – In 1965, Maxine Nelson and two other students at Columbia's all-black Douglass High School enrolled in a predominately white school a year before integration would become mandatory. The fifth-grade teacher said there were no spots available in her class, Nelson recalled, and placed her in the special education class.
Columbia special education teacher receives MLK award
Thursday, February 5, 2009 | 9:53 p.m. CST;
updated 11:37 p.m. CST, Thursday, February 5, 2009
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