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(L-R) CBHS President Bro. Chris Englert, FSC, Jesse Turner Jr., CBU President Dr. John Smarelli, and Bro. Terence McLaughlin, FSC
Christian Brothers High School (CBHS) in Memphis, TN, held a special assembly August 26, 2013 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the day the first African-American student in Shelby County attended a previously all-white high school.
Jesse Turner, Jr. made history when he integrated CBHS on his first day of his freshman year on August 26, 1963. The ceremony, held exactly 50 years later to the day, also recognized Brother Terence McLaughlin, FSC, who was president of Christian Brothers College (now Christian Brothers University) in 1963 and who was responsible for making the historic decision to allow Turner to attend the school.
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