Thanks to a request from a retired professor, the Muscogee County School District has agreed to fill a half-century-old omission in its history.
The late Mary Lee Hall Bussey, the Black educator who led the county’s “Negro schools” for 18 years during segregation, will be honored in the rightful place where its all-white superintendents are remembered.
Judy Purnell, who taught African and African-American culture at Columbus State University, presented her case during the MCSD board’s work session last week. Then, during Feb. 19’s meeting, the board unanimously passed a resolution that gives Bussey the posthumous title of superintendent and orders a professional portrait of her to be commissioned and hung in the Muscogee County Public Education Center along with images of the other superintendents.
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