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Trailblazer who helped integrate Florida schools believes country is heading in right direction

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ORLANDO, Fla. – As News 6 celebrates Black History Month, a local woman who’s been a trailblazer her entire life is speaking out about the history that’s now happening right before our eyes.

LaVon Bracy endured relentless attacks as one of the first African Americans to integrate Florida schools. As the first and only African American to graduate from Gainesville High School in Alachua County in 1965, the threats against her life were real. “Every day that I would go to school, I would find dead rats, roaches and snakes under my seat,” Bracy said. “I’d have tacks in my seat and I’d get these awful, awful letters each day indicating that this would be the last day on earth because I’m in their class and they don’t want Blacks in their

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