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In 1968, Florida sixth-grader Val Demings was chosen for a coveted role: safety patrol. It was a big deal. For the first six years of her education, Demings had been bused across Jacksonville to a school for black children. Now, as one of the few black members of her new school’s first integrated class, she had impressed her teachers enough to be elevated to a position of authority.
“And let me tell you something,” she said in an interview earlier this month. “When they gave me that badge and my belt, I was trying to tell everybody what to do.”
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