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Almera Romney in 1946 with her first class at Huntington Elementary School. She was a remarkable force for good in Monrovia. She began as a teacher and soon became principal. She changed the segregated school from a disgracefully under-resourced and physically unsafe school where children were considered incapable of learning, to a school where children received an excellent education and thrived academically and socially. Her full story is told by her daughter in De Facto Segregation in Monrovia, California. Almera A Romney and Huntington Elementary School, by Mary Ellen Romney MacArthur Aug. 1993. Available at the Monrovia Public Library.
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