Personally, I know very little about Nashville High & Elementary. Being a small school in a league - the Georgia Interscholastic Association - of usually small schools, they played no football.

They did play basketball and apparently played it quite well. More than one person remembers them inviting white fans and roping off a section of seats specifically for that purpose. I cannot confirm any of the basketball accomplishments of the Flying Falcons, though. In the 1965 yearbook, there is a cryptic graphic that reads "Champs '64" with no clues as to its meaning. Based on the yearbook, basketball was the only sport sponsored by NH&E, so the accomplishment had to be in that area.

The best known athlete in school history was Mack Daughtry. He would become a standout at Albany State. The Atlanta Hawks thought well enough of him to draft him and he was one of their last cuts when they were shaping their team that fall. Daughtry would then play a season in the ABA, then several seasons in the Continental Basketball Association. He is one of their all-time high scorers.

Other members of Daughtry's family would be the first basketball stars at Berrien High when it began integrating in February 1966. Roosevelt Daughtry was the first to go out for the team and Ernest Taylor was the first standout. He scored 400 points as a senior at BHS and was named All-State. Ernest and his younger siblings all played exceedingly well and were key components in some very good teams.

The high school portion of Nashville High & Elementary shut its doors in 1968, as BHS fully integrated.