The Macon County Board of Education is playing a pivotal role in sharing and reshaping the history of Macon County, evidenced by  the historical account of Anthony Lee, Willie Wyatt, and Robert Judkins, who faced discrimination head on as they attempted to integrate the schools of Macon County in the 1960s (The Tuskegee News, February 23, 2012).

Now, nearly 50 years later, a celebratory event to honor and officially award high school diplomas to Anthony Lee, Willie Wyatt, and a representative for Robert Judkins (now deceased) from the Macon County Board of Education stems from a collaborative and ongoing project between the Community and Civic Engagement Initiative in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center to document and preserve citizen memories related to the desegregation of public schools in Macon County.

The public is invited to attend at 2:00 p.m., May 23, 2012 event with Lee and Wyatt, who will recount their experiences from the 1960s.  Participants will also hear recently discovered audio recordings of ABC News correspondent and journalist Paul Good, which includes a first-hand account of the violence and an interview shortly thereafter with the mayor of Notasulga. The lawyer that represented the students in the lawsuit is local and famed Attorney Fred D. Gray, Sr.