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By Raviya H. Ismail, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky. Feb. 9--In a civil rights lawsuit filed Friday, former Booker T. Washington Academy principal Peggy Petrilli says she was forced to leave the elementary school because she's white, and parents and others wanted a black principal.

By GENE CURTIS After working his way through college in Mississippi during the early 20th century, Ellis Walker Woods saw a flier advertising the need for black teachers in Oklahoma.

By Raviya H. Ismail, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky. Aug. 31--Booker T.

By Wood, Andrew J The Rosenwald Schools of the American South. By Mary S. Hoffschwelle. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xx, 401 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-8130-2957-0.