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Diploma for n associates degree in Office Management awarded to Linda Day Saxon from Southern Union State Community College class of 2017

Associates diploma in Child Development from Southern Union State Community College for Linda Day Saxon Class of 2002

Graduation diploma for Linda Day Saxon from Southern Union State Community College

Linda Day Saxon's college graduation diploma for the Class of 1986

One of the largest Rosenwald schools erected in Alabama, the ten-room Lee County Training School served first- through twelfth-grade African-American students in the Auburn area starting in 1928. Lee County Training School became the first black…

Auburn’s last exclusively African-American public high school was founded in 1957. J.F. Drake High School was named after Dr. Joseph Fanning Drake, and Auburn native who went on to become the president of Alabama A&M College in Huntsville. In 1968,…

Drake Highschool Class of 1963 Reunion Dance Invitation

Agenda detailing the Class of 1963 Drake High School Reunion

A napkin from the Drake Class of 1964 Silver Reunion

Newspaper clipping accounting the Class of 1960 reunion's attendants and former teachers

Auburn's first public elementary school that serviced only African-American students was founded in 1951, when it also briefly functioned as a junior high school. Boykin Street Elementary remained the institution for Auburn’s African-American…

In 1931, the institution that would come to be known as Auburn High School opened on Samford Avenue at the site of present-day Samford Middle School. From 1931 to 1959, the institution was known as Lee County High School. Until 1966, the entire…