Editing Gainesville, Florida (section)

===Desegregation===
Gainesville's schools began [[School integration in the United States|desegregating]] in the 1960s and its high schools were integrated from 1968 to 1970, the "colored" schools having been either closed or integrated.<ref>Michael Gengler, ''Alternet.org,'' August 27, 2018 [https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/teachers-were-real-heroes-school-desegregation "Teachers Were the Real Heroes of School Desegregation: Often overlooked in histories of school desegregation are the teachers]"</ref>