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In Reply to: Remember The Titans posted by ChuckMoe on March 21, 2001 at 19:43:15:

I was in a neighboring high school during the time in question. A little background might be interesting.
In Northern Virginia, public schools were segregated until about 1961. Public schools in Arlington -- where I grew up -- were integrated that year. Alexandria had two public high schools -- Frances Hammond and George Washington. Part of Alexandria is quite old -- indeed the city was one of two on the Potomac before Washington DC was founded (the other was Georgetown, now a part of Washington). GW high school served the old part of Alexandria, which, not surprisingly, had a substantial African-American population. I don't know how old GW was, but GW and my high school (Washington-Lee) had a regular football contest for an "oaken bucket" trophy that dated back to about 1940. Alexandria, like the rest of Northern Virginia, was a pretty sleepy place until after World War II when the great growth of the federal government created a demand for lots of new housing. So, a part of Alexandria looks like any other post-WWII DC area suburb. Hammond High School served that part of Alexandria; so Hammond was a pretty "white" school. Because of this and, perhaps, because of a desire to achieve some scale economies, the Alexandria City fathers decided to close GW and Hammond as high schools (I think Hammond was retreaded as a middle school) and consolidate the city's high school populaton into one, new high school --T.C. Williams, home of the Titans. Williams was first opened during the 1965-66 school year. I don't remember any big hoo-hah about a football game with Williams in 1965 or 1966; but I graduated from W-L the following year.
P.S. W-L's claim to fame is the home of: Warren Beatty, Shirley MacLaine (brother & sister, BTW) and *drum roll please* Sandra Bullock.

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