GIA Heritage
Tracing the history of the Georgia Interscholastic Association
MURRAY COUNTY

Chatsworth School for Blacks

Location: Chatsworth
Dates: -1964
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Historical Average Daily Attendance:

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Notes: Murray might have been the first county in Georgia with a black population to totally integrate. Soon after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Murray combined its students. The school is not on the 1959-60 GIA district list, but it apparently did not have a high school. Black high school age students in the county were sent to Dalton's Emery Street School.
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