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Chronicle letters-One from students critical of student body reaction to MLK's murder. Second from Mr. Hoxton laying out expectations for for treatment of first African American students the next Fall.

Drawing of an old Ford car, with the Surf Club inscribed in the side, which is accompanied by a confederate flag. (Daemon 1967)

Drawing of Otis Redding in the 1968 Fall Daemon

This resource is an article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch announcing the decision to desegregate Episcopal High School by the E.H.S. Board of Trustees.

Mr. Chesson discusses Mr. Hoxton's leadership and dorm life as a rat.

Letter from Headmaster Hoxton to parents of the student body to announce that Regi Burns and Sam Paschall would be attending Episcopal beginning in the fall of 1968.

An Episcopal High School student describes an African American called Jim, who has been a servant to his family since the day he was born; the student reflects upon his relationship with Jim, how that relationship deteriorated as he attended…

Two letters in The Chronicle evaluate race relations at EHS in 1968. The headmaster, A.R. Hoxton, Jr. asks the student body to accept the 2 incoming African American boys with the same dignity they accept any new students.

This is an excerpt from the Tampa Tribune about the integration of two African American students under the new headmaster, A.R. Hoxton Junior. The article states that the students were recommended to the school by the Anne C. Stouffer Foundation and…