When Willard Wiggins first set foot on the Gilman School’s campus in the summer of 1964, it all felt “somewhat overwhelming,” he said. “I was used to seeing not mostly but entirely black faces at my old school, and I got here and it was all white faces,” he recalled. “Understanding the tone of…
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50 years later, two of Gilman's first black alumni recall integrating private boys' school
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