Ninth grader Emily Hewson had just finished reading her peers the plaque outside the Overton House, the former home of a civil rights political leader and one of the stops on the African American Heritage Trail, when the field trip took an unusual turn.
“It seems we have lost the principal!” Elaine Weintraub, history teacher and a founder of the African American Heritage Trail, announced. The high school freshmen craned their heads around one another to see if, in fact, the principal was missing. He was.
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