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  • The 19th annual DuBois Reunion was held recently in Mount Hope and Beckley. The event is a community reunion which brings together alumni and others involved with DuBois High School, which served black youths in Fayette County until integration occurred in 1956. New to the festivities this year was 116 Main, a museum in downtown Mount Hope dedicated to telling the story of DuBois High School and sharing the area’s black history. Steve Keenan

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  • Jean Evansmore, left, a Mount Hope resident and one of the event organizers who has missed only one reunion since it started in 1972, discusses a former class of DuBois High School with Leroy D. Lewis Sr., center, and Don Davis. “This is my hometown; that’s where I was born in 1928,” said Lewis, now a resident of Mt. Morris, Mich. Lewis, a 1947 DuBois graduate, has attended every reunion. Davis, a Maple Fork native who now lives in Daniels, formerly worked at the local U.S. Bureau of Mines office and has a keen interest in preserving the history of local towns. Steve Keenan

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  • Mount Hope resident Jaron Penn, 19, left, stopped in to visit with Evansmore at 116 Main. Steve Keenan

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  • Among those recognized in the museum are Eunice Bloodworth Potts, a writer who also taught at DuBois from 1921 to 1930. She herself was taught by James Weldon Johnson at Fisk University in Nashville. Steve Keenan

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September 10, 2012

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The 19th annual DuBois Reunion was held recently in Mount Hope and Beckley. The event is a community reunion which brings together alumni and others involved with DuBois High School, which served black youths in Fayette County until integration occurred in 1956. New to the festivities this year was 116 Main, a museum in downtown Mount Hope dedicated to telling the story of DuBois High School and sharing the area’s black history.

 

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