So, the 569 Lincoln students found themselves at GHS in February 1970, with about 2,600 other white and black students on double sessions. There was no time to rethink GHS as an integrated school.

Michael T. Gengler, a 1962 graduate of GHS, is the author of “We Can Do It, A Community Takes on the Challenge of School Desegregation” about Alachua County (https://wecandoitbook.com).