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High school athletic league during segregation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Georgia Interscholastic Association (GIA), formed in 1948, was a sports league of high schools serving African Americans in Georgia.[1] It merged into the Georgia High School Association with desegregation in 1970.[2] As If We Were Ghosts is a documentary film made about the league and its athletes.[3][4][5][6][7][8] The Georgia Interscholastic Association held state championship competitions from 1948–70 and joined the Georgia High School Association the following year.[2]
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History
The Big 7 Conference included large high schools for African American students in Georgia. The GIA was an expansion of this league that grew to include county high schools around the state.[9] High schools for African Americans from 147 of Georgia's 159 counties came to be included in the league.
Walt Frazier, Wyomia Tyus, Otis Sistrunk, Monk Johnson, Rayfield Wright.[6] Don Adams, Willie Seay, and Edith McGuire emerged from the league.[10][11][12] Seay went on to star on Albany State University's track team and carried the Olympic torch before the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.[12] Becky Taylor who works at the Tifton Gazette has been researching the league for years.[6] Herb White, nicknamed the Elevator from Decatur, worked on the documentary film about the league. A high school basketball, star he went on to play for the Atlanta Hawks.[7]
The GIS grew to include high schools for African American students from 147 of Georgia's 159 counties.[6] After the film was broadcast the filmmakers and some of those featured in the film participated in a panel discussion moderated by Ann Kimbrough.[10]
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High schools
- Henry McNeal Turner High School in northwest Atlanta
- Washington High School in southwest Atlanta
- South Fulton High School in East Point, Georgia
- Ballard-Hudson High School in Macon[13]
- Alfred E. Beach High School in Savannah
- David T. Howard High School in Northeast Atlanta
- Carver High School in Southeast Atlanta
- South Fulton High School in East Point
- Josey High School in Augusta
- Central High School in Springfield
- Atkinson County Training High School in Pearson
- Appling High School in Macon
- Eva Thomas High School in College Park
- Harrison High School in West Point
- Risley High School in Brunswick
- Calhoun High School
- Carver High School in Dawson[14]
- Lee Street High School in Blackshear
- Hutto High School in Bainbridge
- Macon County Training High School in Montezuma
- Holsey-Cobb Institute in Cordele
- Thomaston Training School in Wayne County
- Training School in Jesup
- Hill High School in LaFayette
- Edison Negro High School
- Alma Consolidated High School
- Fairmont High School in Griffin
- Richland High & Industrial
- Hunt High School in Fort Valley
- Haralson County Consolidated High School in Waco
- Monitor High School in Fitzgerald
- Harrison High School in West Point
- South Fulton High School in East Point
- Central High School in McRae
- George W. Drake High School in Thomaston
- R. L. Cousins High School in Douglasville
- Bethune High School in Folkston
- West End School in Hogansville
- Ralph Bunche High School in Canton
- St. Pius X High School in Savannah
- Eureka School[15]
- Liberty County High School
- Bailey-Johnson School in Alpharetta
- Calhoun Crawford County Training School in Roberta
- Whitman Street High School in Toccoa
- Stephens High School in Calhoun
- Lucy Craft Laney High School in Augusta, Georgia
- Luther Judson Price High School in southeast Atlanta[16]
- Sophronia Tompkins High School (became Woodville-Tompkins)
- Houston High School, Indians[17]
- Wilson High School[17]
- William H. Spencer High School in Columbus[16]
- Ralph Bunche High School[16]
- Dasher High School[16]
- Pinevale High School in Valdosta,[16] the Fighting Tigers[18]
- Boggs Academy,[16] a Presbyterian parochial school
- Elm Street High School,[16] now Rockmart Middle School[19]
- Cedar Hill High School[16] in Cedartown, Georgia
- William Bryant High School in Moultrie,[20][16] formerly Moultrie High School for Negro Youth[21] It became a junior high school after integration[22]
- Lemon Street High School of Marietta, the Hornets[20]
- Elder High School[23] in Sandersville, Georgia
- Maggie Califf High School in Gray, Georgia[24]
- Peabody High School in Eastman, Georgia[24]
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