New Story: A New Film About Iona and Donal Godfrey and the KKK Bombing, but also a Story about Desegregation Battles and How that Long and Winding Road Ends at Jacksonville Classical Academy

Posted on January 13, 2024 | Leave a comment

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When Donal Godfrey became the first Black child at Lackawanna Elementary, the Klan bombed his home. When desegregation court orders merged Lackawanna and Forest Park, a Black school built on incinerator ash, white supremacists picketing multiple schools concentrated their efforts on Lackawanna. Now, as Jacksonville Classical Academy operates where Forest Park stood, a new documentary by an Atlanta filmmaker tells the story of mother and child, Iona and Donal Godfrey.

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